From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11867 invoked by alias); 11 Sep 2003 14:07:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11853 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2003 14:07:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2003 14:07:47 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3267C2B89; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:07:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F6081B1.6070001@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:37:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Elena Zannoni Cc: Bob Rossi , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: vast numbers of unimplemented MI commands. References: <20030911020429.GF17937@white> <16223.58420.108851.41512@localhost.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00150.txt.bz2 > Bob Rossi writes: > > Hi, > > > > I just was looking through the MI commands. Many of them in mi-cmds.c > > are unimplemented. Is this how 6.0 will be released? or will most of > > them get implemented first? > > > > The set of MI commands was decided before there really was any GUI > using them. We thought it would be a reasonable set of commands that > would allow a GUI to do what it needed. We decided to implement them > as the need would arise. It turned out in reality that not all those > commands were necessary. > > > Also, how does eclipse interface with MI if so many commands are > > missing? For example, -file-list-exec-source-files returns all of the > > source files that the inferior is made up of. Does eclipse just not give > > the user this info, or would it parse the CLI output? > > > > I am not sure what Eclipse does in this case. You can look at the > debugger plugin code at http://www.eclipse.org/cdt. I suspect that > that information may come from some other part of the Eclipse IDE. > > > I am bringing this up because I plan on starting my own MI integration > > and ran into this problem. I would be willing to help implement any of > > these missing commands, but I was just wondering if there is any > > incentive on the GDB team to finish off the task. > > > > since > 6.0 will happen in a week or so. Hopefully less than that. Andrew