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

On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:44:30 +0200, Ömer Sinan Ağacan wrote:
> One thing that I'm confused about this MI thing is that even IDEs
> don't use it, as far as I can see.

MI is not such a win as I have written in the other mail:

On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:02:50 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
# MI implements only very poor subset of GDB functionality
# so one has to use '-interpreter-exec console ...' anyway and parse the
# unparsable text output.

There is a theoretical suggestion that people should implement into GDB
anything they miss.  But contributability to GDB is difficult for many reasons
besides that it is just an additional barrier to write an MI client (when one
has to write also the MI server along).


Jan