Re: GDB/MI async output token field

On 05/23/2014 05:14 AM, Bob Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm slowly working through the GDB/MI output command functionality.
>
> On this page,
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/GDB_002fMI-Output-Syntax.html#GDB_002fMI-Output-Syntax
>
> The documentation says,
>   Note that for all async output, while the token is allowed by the
>   grammar and may be output by future versions of gdb for select async
>   output messages, it is generally omitted.
>
>   Frontends should treat all async output as reporting general changes in
>   the state of the target and there should be no need to associate async
>   output to any prior command.
>
> I searched through the GDB source code and can't find a single place
> where this occurs.
>
> Does anyone know how to make a token appear in the async record?
> Did older versions do it?
>
> If GDB is not using this feature, I propose we remove this information
> from the manual until we actually need the functionality.

Bob,

such clarification will be good.

- Volodya