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Re: asynchronous MI output commands


On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 05:27:11PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 08:45:18PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > OK, with that information, I see it is impossible to tell just from 
> > looking at the MI output, to determine if the command is synchronous 
> > or not. Look below for a solution to this problem for me.
> 
> What?  ^done is a synchronous response, *stopped is an asynchronous
> response.  There's not really any way of knowing whether a command
> might produce later asynchronous output.
> 
> [Here we run into the limits of the current, mostly synchronous
> implementation.]

Daniel, 

Please also notice that Xcode actually did modify the MI protocol to
tell the front end about the asynchronous commands.

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2004-09/msg00238.html

Bob Rossi


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