Debugger MI port

Vladimir Prus ghost at cs.msu.su
Wed Feb 1 15:26:06 UTC 2006


Hi Roberto,

> > Of course, there are downsides. MI at the moment is immature protocol and
> > has certain omissions. The documentation is pretty weak as well. However
> > I hope I'll be able to workaround this.
>
> Yeap we know that :( I saw you're using the GDB/MI prototype I wrote a
> couple of years ago. Do you have any plan to switch to a better
> implementation of GDB/MI? 

No. While that code of yours had a couple of bugs (which were easy to fix), 
and I plan to refactor the interface a bit, it works fine otherwise.

> maybe something we can share with other projects 
> too. If I'm not getting wrong there is a GDB/MI parser developed by the GDB
> community.. Maybe we can use that one.

But it's plain C. I doubt we will gain anything using it, so if there's 
anything worth sharing, it's your parser.

- Volodya




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