Re: GDB C API -- does such a thing exist?

On 10/17/2014 07:44 AM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan wrote:
> Thanks for all the answers.
> 
> 2014-10-17 2:45 GMT+03:00 Stan Shebs <[email protected]>:
>> MI is really the safe way to go.
> 
> A lot of people suggested this so I guess that's right. Where can I
> find specification of it?
> 
> One thing that I'm confused about this MI thing is that even IDEs
> don't use it, as far as I can see.

See https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB%20Front%20Ends .

> For example, I just checked CLion
> and it's just running GDB prompt and talking with GDB using it. 

How did you check?  Is CLion's source code somewhere?

> So I had a bad impression about it. I'm hoping to be wrong.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves