From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: MI and backwards compatibility
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041002162822.GD5224@white> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c4a89c$Blat.v2.2.2$40bcdc20@zahav.net.il>
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 06:23:08PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:25:17 -0400
> > From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
> >
> > So, here is an example that I don't see to far fetched within the next
> > few years. The question is, what does backwards compatibility mean?
> > This is what I expect,
> >
> > FE 1.0 or after to never work with GDB 1.0
> > FE 1.0 to work with GDB 2.0 on using mi2.
> > FE 2.0 to work with GDB 2.0 and 3.0 using mi2
> > and with GDB 4.0 on with mi3
> > FE 3.0 to work with GDB 2.0 and 3.0 using mi2
> > and with GDB 4.0 with mi3
> > and with GDB 5.0 with mi4
>
> I don't see any problems with what you described. Am I missing
> something?
Are you saying that the goal of GDB is to be backwards compatible with
old MI protocols? That is a simple question that i am asking.
If so, I need the documentation of all of these protocols. I need to
know how to implement an MI1 protocol, MI2 protocol, ...
Thanks,
Bob Rossi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-02 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-01 14:25 Bob Rossi
2004-10-02 16:26 ` Bob Rossi
2004-10-02 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-10-03 4:53 ` Bob Rossi
2004-10-03 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-10-03 16:39 ` Bob Rossi
2004-10-02 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-10-02 16:38 ` Bob Rossi [this message]
2004-10-02 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-10-05 19:41 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-10-06 1:01 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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