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To: Michael Chastain <mec.gnu@mindspring.com>
Cc: cagney@redhat.com, ezannoni@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb.mi/*.exp and absolute line numbers
References: <4111FC04.nailD7G1U3QKS@mindspring.com>
From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:34:00 -0000
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Michael Chastain <mec.gnu@mindspring.com> writes:
> Can you remember the reason that gdb_get_line_number talks to gdb
> rather than doing its own scanning?  Perhaps the reason was just
> "it's easier to talk to gdb than to write a bunch of tcl".

That was the reason.