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Re: problems with v3


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:37:18PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Roland> I don't really know the gdb code, but I'm surprised it really
> Roland> has multiple different "serial" backends.
> 
> I don't know this area well, but considering that ser-unix.c is just
> chock full of tty-related goo, I think it is probably important for
> something.  My impression is that this API is not just used for target
> communication but also for manipulating gdb's own terminal.

Correct.  Also, the abstraction layer is important on non-Unix
systems; "everything is a file descriptor" works poorly on Windows :-)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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