From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7782 invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2014 12:29:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 7769 invoked by uid 89); 17 Oct 2014 12:29:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:29:01 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0CCF11635A; Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:28:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id bB78V+0o2zin; Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:28:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB7E011634E; Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:28:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C689740DC5; Fri, 17 Oct 2014 05:28:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:29:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=96mer_Sinan_A=C4=9Facan?= , Stan Shebs , gdb Subject: Re: GDB C API -- does such a thing exist? Message-ID: <20141017122859.GA19237@adacore.com> References: <5440588D.8060503@earthlink.net> <20141017120555.GC7123@host2.jankratochvil.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141017120555.GC7123@host2.jankratochvil.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2014-10/txt/msg00066.txt.bz2 Jan, > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:02:50 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > # MI implements only very poor subset of GDB functionality > # so one has to use '-interpreter-exec console ...' anyway and parse the > # unparsable text output. > > There is a theoretical suggestion that people should implement into > GDB anything they miss. But contributability to GDB is difficult for > many reasons besides that it is just an additional barrier to write an > MI client (when one has to write also the MI server along). My experience of contributing to GDB/MI does not match yours. When I worked with the IDE team at AdaCore on GDB/MI, they identified a number of missing failures, and implementation was both easy and contribution went well. -- Joel