From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19910 invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2004 15:45:01 -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 19864 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 15:44:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 29 Nov 2004 15:44:59 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iATFirbE006058 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:44:53 -0500 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (vpn50-72.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.72]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iATFirr20036; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:44:53 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F249A129D8C; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:44:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41AB43C8.7050500@gnu.org> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:08:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041020) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Konstantin Karganov Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: (a?)synchronous stepping commands in gdb MI, a week later References: <3616850089.20041129165854@ispras.ru> In-Reply-To: <3616850089.20041129165854@ispras.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00255.txt.bz2 Konstantin Karganov wrote: > Sorry for the repeat... > > Does anyone know why the "-exec-*" commands family in GDB MI is > declared asynchronous but in fact behaves synchronously (blocking the > interface until the execution completes)? > > Thank you. Asynchronous behavior depends on an asynchronous backend. At present only ``target async-remote'' is asynchronous (and then there's doubt that it still works), hence the behavior you're seeing. Andrew