Re: filtering of commands during async operation

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot 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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 > Jim Ingham                                                           
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