Re: [commit] `insight -i=gdbtk' works

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>]

> On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 08:13, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> > 	./insight -nx -i=gdbtk
> > 	./gdb -nw -i=gdbtk
> >
> > it dumps core.  If you haven't guessed, the missing bit involves 
> > gdbtk_init(), init_ui_hook and use_windows.
>
> Turns out that we're barking up the same tree. Except my version doesn't
> crash at all, but it also doesn't honor "-nw". I have a feeling this is
> going to be a messy/hacky fix.
>
> Anyway, I'll see about merging our two implementations. (I also
> submitted a patch against gdb so that when users run "insight", they 
> implicitly get "-i=insight". A bigger "problem" will be keeping the
> symmetry with "gdb -w". That won't work, either, but, then again, maybe
> it shouldn't. We are trying to get gdb it's own isolated executable,
> right? [Reminds me... I think I have patches somewhere to do this --
> updates the init.c process and adds options parsing...]
I'm pretty sure that with your main.c change in (and gdbtk.c changed to 
register "insight" instead of "gdbtk", insight will at least `work'.

That just leaves the core dump which is comming from gdbtk_init() not 
being called in all cases :-(  There, the fix, I think, involves 
modifying the interps.h:init interface so that it takes an argv0 parameter.

As for -nw, yes, that needs some thought.  Thinking out loud, should the 
option even remain?  Or turn into an alias - `-nw' -> `-i=console'; `-w' 
-> `-i=gui' (and have insight register `gui' as an interpreter)?  Or, 
become an attribute that is used when selecting the initial interpreter? 
 Something to discuss on the gdb@ as --tui has the same problem.

Andrew