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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Konstantin Karganov <kostik@ispras.ru>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: complete GDB MI specification
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 20:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c4dbd6$Blat.v2.2.2$0b225460@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18220744048.20041206192130@ispras.ru> (message from Konstantin Karganov on Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:21:30 +0300)

> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:21:30 +0300
> From: Konstantin Karganov <kostik@ispras.ru>
> 
> I'm going to implement a GUI debugger over GDB and need a complete
> description of MI commands and their result formats. Where can I find
> it?

In general, in the manual.

> The "Debugging with GDB" guide doesn't specify many details: for
> example, the value of the expression is a string with unclear format
> (i.e. "[0 <repeated 100 times>]" is a valid array value), the
> "-var-update" response is not specified at all...

Please report all such unclear cases, and I will try to fix them.

> How can I make a parser for the grammar specified as "there should be
> something like the result"? :)

There was a long series of discussions about a month ago, either here
or on gdb-patches.  Search for "MI" in the archives, and you will find
a patch with a formal parser grammar for the MI interface.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-06 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-29 14:06 (a?)synchronous stepping commands in gdb MI, a week later Konstantin Karganov
2004-11-29 16:08 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-11-29 19:59   ` Re[2]: " Konstantin Karganov
2004-12-06 16:19     ` complete GDB MI specification Konstantin Karganov
2004-12-06 20:55       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-12-07 18:42         ` Re[2]: " Konstantin Karganov
2004-12-07 18:58           ` Bob Rossi
2004-12-07 19:45             ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-12-07 19:50               ` Bob Rossi
2004-12-07 21:47                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-12-07 19:42           ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-12-08 16:42             ` Re[2]: " Konstantin Karganov
2004-12-08 16:53               ` Bob Rossi
2004-12-08 17:45                 ` Re[2]: " Konstantin Karganov
2004-12-08 18:30                   ` Bob Rossi
2004-12-08 18:34                     ` Bob Rossi
2004-12-08 18:39                     ` Re[2]: " Konstantin Karganov
2004-12-08 17:01               ` Dave Korn

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