From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8462 invoked by alias); 12 Apr 2012 06:18:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 8453 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Apr 2012 06:18:23 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:18:10 +0000 Received: from svr-orw-exc-10.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.58]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1SIDM8-0001x8-DO from Carlos_ODonell@mentor.com ; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:18:08 -0700 Received: from SVR-ORW-FEM-04.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.97.41]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-10.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:17:49 -0700 Received: from [172.30.12.197] (147.34.91.1) by svr-orw-fem-04.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.97.41) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.289.1; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:18:07 -0700 Message-ID: <4F86739E.8040108@mentor.com> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:18:00 -0000 From: Carlos O'Donell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii CC: Joel Brobecker , Subject: Re: Useful MI functions marked @ignore in gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo. References: <4F85F7F1.1070304@mentor.com> <20120411214822.GN25623@adacore.com> <83sjg94i9u.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <83sjg94i9u.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00078.txt.bz2 On 4/12/2012 1:43 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:48:22 -0700 >> From: Joel Brobecker >> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org >> >>> What's the story with these hidden, but documented MI functions? >> >> This was a long time ago. My guess is that these commands were part >> of the initial design, and the design got captured as a hidden part >> of the documentation, but the commands themselves never got implemented. > > That's right. In fact, the MI part of the manual is the design > document converted to Texinfo when MI was added to the official > version of GDB. We'll propose something once we get our use cases down. Eli, Joel, thanks for the background. Cheers, Carlos. -- Carlos O'Donell Mentor Graphics / CodeSourcery carlos_odonell@mentor.com carlos@codesourcery.com +1 (613) 963 1026