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Re: GDB/MI snapshots between major release's
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>:
> Actually, I doubt GDB will continue to support old MI versions
> indefinitely. It may be very hard. For instance, at some point we may
> report multiple events to the front end at once (from different
> threads); or multiple addresses associated with a breakpoint. Faking
> an old interface will not be worth the trouble.
> I expect there will be points at which front ends will have to be
> updated to talk to a new GDB.
right. if it's too hard to support an old MI, any front-end
using the old MI will have the wrong model of interaction with
gdb, so the front-end will need substantial work to talk to the
new gdb no matter what, so that's not a problem either.
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