(Partial) use of MI in Emacs

(Partial) use of MI in Emacs

[Nick Roberts]

I have recently committed a version of gdb-ui.el to the Emacs CVS repository
(http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs) uses variable objects to watch
expressions in the speedbar. This is achieved by using annotations level 3 and
the "interpreter mi" command (Many thanks to Jim Ingham et al, who contributed
this feature) and therefore requires GDB version 6 as well as the CVS version
of Emacs. It is similar, in some ways, to Insight. Indeed, the icons in the
toolbar are taken from there (with permission, of course).

It separates the output stream of the inferior from that of the debugger so
could be good for debugging GDB. A note of caution, however, the CVS version
of Emacs can crash quite frequently. Also, update of expressions in the speedbar
can be very slow. So, at the moment, it is still experimental and not suitable
for serious work.

Any feedback (perhaps to emacs-devel@gnu.org), good or bad, is most welcome.

Nick

Re: (Partial) use of MI in Emacs

[Andrew Cagney]

> I have recently committed a version of gdb-ui.el to the Emacs CVS repository
> (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs) uses variable objects to watch
> expressions in the speedbar. This is achieved by using annotations level 3 and
> the "interpreter mi" command (Many thanks to Jim Ingham et al, who contributed
> this feature) and therefore requires GDB version 6 as well as the CVS version
> of Emacs. It is similar, in some ways, to Insight. Indeed, the icons in the
> toolbar are taken from there (with permission, of course).

That's good news, thanks!

It's also worth mentioning that Fernando and Keith for variable-objects; 
and Elena, Keith and I for integrating the "interpreter mi" prototype 
into GDB.

Andrew