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Re: MI Development
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 09:30:52 Nick Roberts wrote:
> > CLI commands bypass MI When a CLI command is issued, we don't see
> > "^running". As result, frontend can easily think that gdb is waiting for
> > commands while inferior is running.
>
> With asynchronous operation, asynchronous CLI commands give the same MI output
> that MI commands do.
Why would I want to enable asynchronous operation for that to work? The
default behaviour is just broken, so even if --async fixes that, we should not
require any switches to get non-broken behaviour.
- Volodya