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From: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
To: Rick Moseley <rmoseley@redhat.com>
Cc: frysk <frysk@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: GDB interface: MI versus API or ??
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <487B8266.9020601@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <487B64C8.30707@redhat.com>

Rick Moseley wrote:

Hi rick. Interesting reponses.
>
> Marc Khouzam:
>
> "The new DSF-based debugging frontend that can also be used with the CDT
> also has an MI layer.  If Frysk was to use the MI protocol, I think its
> usage would be easier to implement for DSF.

Why not implement a Frysk "module/plug-in/back-end/whatever" for DSF? If 
CDT implements the debugger via DSF, it should not matter then?

>
> Also, GDB is evolving the MI interface for such things as non-stop
> debugging and multi-process debugging.  So, MI has some effort being
> put into it.  I believe an API library would need to be defined from the
> start, which seems to be more work, for Frysk and for DSF.

Cite ;)

>
>
> From these responses it seems the MI is alive and well inside the 
> Eclipse CDT.  Although it would seem to me the API approach would be 
> more robust/full-featured, there does not seem to be any 
> qualms/objections to using the MI protocol.  If there are new features 
> being made to MI in the gdb community it might be the way to go if it 
> indeed fleshes out the functionality.  We could implement the gdb MI 
> protocol and then add "Frysk extensions" to get the additional 
> functionality we require.
>

It sure is, but what else is there, out-there now to compare it too?  
I'm not against MI, or GDB (and am playing a large degree of devil's 
advocate here), but if you ask the a bunch of MI hackers what's best 
since sliced bread ....

But a very interesting set of responses. The data is good, lets hope 
there is more of it!


Regards

Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-14 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-14 14:38 Rick Moseley
2008-07-14 16:44 ` Phil Muldoon [this message]
2008-07-14 18:59   ` Rick Moseley
2008-07-14 19:11     ` Tom Tromey
2008-07-14 19:31       ` Rick Moseley
2008-07-14 20:01         ` Keith Seitz
2008-07-14 20:10           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-07-14 20:11           ` Phil Muldoon
2008-07-14 20:18             ` Keith Seitz
2008-07-14 20:25               ` Phil Muldoon
2008-07-14 19:30 ` Rick Moseley
2008-07-15 15:30 ` Sami Wagiaalla
2008-07-16 17:08 ` Dodji Seketeli

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