Re: GDB/MI questions

On Thu, 2017-01-19 at 15:24 +0000, Marc Khouzam wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 02:30:58PM +0000, Marc Khouzam wrote:
> > > > Second, from the CLI if you run the command "next", then if you
> > > > hit
> > > > the enter key, GDB will run the "next" command again.
> > > > However, in GDB/MI if you run -interpreter-exec console "next",
> > > > and then
> > > > follow that with the Enter key, GDB does nothing.
> > > > Is there a way to run the last command?
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > But if you really want that for some reason, you can just keep
> > > track
> > > of the last command you sent in MI, and then when getting an lone
> > > Enter, you could send it again.  But then you don't have the
> > > smarts
> > > of GDB to know which commands should repeat and which should not.
> > > I don't think this is a very good idea.
> > 
> > I'm just trying to provide the same functionality I did when I was
> > using
> > annotations. This was one of the noted differences.
> > 
> > Since the MI differs in this area, I've done as you suggested and
> > that works well. I guess I'll see if there are any downsides here.
> 
> For the record, I'll add my voice to Pedro's suggestion to try out
> the 'new-ui' command and have a separate MI channel from your CLI.
> That is such a better user experience.
> And it shouldn't be very hard to implement in your frontend since
> you were previously handling a GDB CLI anyway.
> 
> FYI, Eclipse launches GDB in CLI mode (probably like you did before)
> and let's the user interact with that CLI, while it sends MI commands
> on the
> dedicated PTY for the MI channel.
> 
> Here is the parameters eclipse uses to launch such a GDB:
> 
> gdb.7.12 --nx -q -ex "new-ui mi <some pty>" -ex "set pagination off"
> -ex show version

Would it work the other way round? I mean starting in MI mode and then 
do something like -new-ui console /dev/some/pty ?

This looks more "natural" to me. 

Jan

> 
> Note that the "-q" command along with the last two -ex commands are
> to make 
> sure GDB does not paginate before creating the MI channel, in case
> the terminal is 
> too small to even show the version.
> 
> One very important note if you use the new-ui feature, is that you
> need to run
> mi-async because the MI channel does not accept ^C, so you need to
> use
> -exec-interrupt instead.  
> 
> Also, it will probably need a bit more work if you target Windows.
> 
> Marc
> 
>