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Re: [mi] -list-features
> From: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:47:17 +0400
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
>
> -list-features
> Returns a list of particular features of the MI protocol that
> this version of gdb implements. A feature can be a command,
> or a new field in an output of some command, or even an
> important bugfix. While a frontend can sometimes detect presence
> of a feature at runtime, it is easier to perform detection at debugger
> startup. The current list of features is:
>
> - 'frozen-varobjs' -- indicates presence of -var-set-frozen command,
> as well as possible presense of the 'frozen' field in the output of
> -varobj-create.
> .........
This is fine, but for it to be useful to front ends, I think you need
to tell more about the format of the output, because a program will
need to parse and understand it. Let's say I want to test for the
support of a feature name "frobnicate", how would I go about it?
TIA