Re: RFC: MI output during program execution

[Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>]

The front end needs to know if a CLI command executed via "- 
interpreter-exec console" changed the current thread or frame - so it  
can update the UI accordingly.  Or if it started the target running.   
Or if it added a breakpoint.

All these things could be queried from existing commands in the MI,  
but that's pretty inconvenient and inefficient.  It's much easier to  
code up the UI if gdb tells it asynchronously about these things.

Jim

On Aug 9, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Bob Rossi wrote:

> > But as I said in my previous note, I think a better solution is to
> > use hooks/observers/events or whatever to allow the MI to be informed
> > about things it needs to know about "behind the back" of the CLI
> > that's running the command.
>
> Could you please give a quick example of something "the FE needs to  
> know
> about?" Would there be a default way to get all the things the FE
> cares about? Is it as easy as making a new MI command
>    -mi-get-state
> which would output a list of items the FE cares about?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob Rossi