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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
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In-reply-to: <416F37BF.nail3XL4INQH1@mindspring.com> (message from Michael
	Chastain on Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:36:46 -0400)
Subject: Re: probing GDB for MI versions
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> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:36:46 -0400
> From: Michael Chastain <mec.gnu@mindspring.com>
> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
> 
> gcc has many options with similar purposes:

GCC is not an interactive program, so it has no other way to do that.
Not so in the case of GDB.