Re: other weird gdb-mi problems

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (Nick Roberts) writes:
> It's an Emacs problem.  The CLI commands "up" and "down", don't emit any
> GDB/MI notifications so Emacs doen't know that the display needs updating.  It
> could check the selected frame after every command but that seems inefficient.
> I have proposed using notifications for changes in state in the past on the
> GDB mailing list, e.g.,
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-04/msg00377.html but there hasn't
> been much interest.

hmm, if MI is supposed to be a useful interface, isn't gdb not giving
notice of its state changes a bug with gdb too?

> I think this is because many frontends don't use a
> console like the GUD buffer.

Argh, the mouth-breathers strike again ... :(

-Miles

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