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Re: filtering of commands during async operation
- From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
- To: Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:41:52 -0500
- Subject: Re: filtering of commands during async operation
- References: <1068129153.32379.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com><1623959A-1080-11D8-ABD7-000A277A8808@apple.com>
Jim Ingham writes:
> The all the targets we support in Apple's version of gdb are async -
> including the Mach-O native target. It took a bunch of mucking around
> to get it working (and to get things like commands that run the target
> working). And I am pretty sure that I broke the remote async in the
> process, however, there were a couple of hacks in there (marked as such
> in the code) that messed us up and I didn't have the patience at the
> time to make both work...
>
> So I would need to do some clean-up before our code would be ready for
> submission, but as a proof of concept it might be useful to folks, and
> in our system it works pretty well.
>
It seems to have become some kind of a pattern that somebody other
than Apple is going to merge Apple's changes with the FSF mainline. Is
there any way to get another snapshot/tarball (like it was done in Dec
2001)? Maybe somebody will volunteer, even though this approach is
suboptimal.
elena
> Jim
>
> On Nov 6, 2003, at 6:32 AM, gdb-digest-help@sources.redhat.com wrote:
>
> > Whoops. I agree, this is screwed up. I'll just make the fix now, no
> > need to file a bug report. I am curious, did somebody get async
> > native to work? So far there is only the remote async target. I do
> > remember testing this, back 4 years ago, maybe the logic got turned
> > around at some point.
> >
> >
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