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If you find inaccuracies in this list, please send mail to
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gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com. If you would like to work on any
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of these, you should consider sending mail to the same address, to
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find out whether anyone else is working on it.
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GDB 5.1 - Fixes
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===============
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Below is a list of problems identified during the GDB 5.0 release
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cycle. People hope to have these problems fixed in 5.1.
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Wow, three bug reports for the same problem in one day! We should
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probably make fixing this a real priority :-).
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Anyway, thanks for reporting.
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The following patch will fix the problems with setting breakpoints in
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dynamically loaded objects:
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http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-05/msg00230.html
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This patch isn't checked in yet (ping Michael/JimB), but I hope this
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will be in the next GDB release.
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There should really be a test in the testsuite for this problem, since
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it keeps coming up :-(. Any volunteers?
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Mark
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GDB 5.1 - New features
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======================
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The following new features should be included in 5.1.
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--
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GDB 5.1 - Cleanups
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==================
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The following code cleanups will hopefully be applied to GDB 5.1.
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--
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GDB 5.1 - Known Problems
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========================
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--
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z8k
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The z8k has suffered bit rot and is known to not build. The problem
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was occuring in the opcodes directory.
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--
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The BFD directory requires bug-fixed AUTOMAKE et.al.
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AUTOMAKE 1.4 incorrectly set the TEXINPUTS environment variable. It
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contained the full path to texinfo.tex when it should have only
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contained the directory. The bug has been fixed in the current
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AUTOMAKE sources. Automake snapshots can be found in:
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ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gdb/infrastructure
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and ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils
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Solaris 8 x86 CURSES_H problem
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http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2000-07/msg00038.html
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The original problem was worked around with:
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2000-06-06 Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
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* configure.in: Enable autoconf to find curses.h on Solaris 2.8.
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* configure: Regenerate.
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When building both GDB and SID using the same source tree the problem
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will still occure. sid/component/configure.in mis-configures
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<curses.h> and leaves wrong information in the config cache.
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GDB 5.2 - Fixes
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===============
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--
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GDB 5.2 - New features
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======================
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--
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GCC 3.0 ABI support (but hopefully sooner...).
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--
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Objective C/C++ support (but hopefully sooner...).
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--
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Import of readline 4.2
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--
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GDB 5.2 - Cleanups
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==================
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The following cleanups have been identified as part of GDB 5.2.
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Remove old code that does not use ui_out functions and all the related
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"ifdef"s. This also allows the elimination of -DUI_OUT from
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Makefile.in and configure.in.
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--
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Compiler warnings.
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Eliminate warnings for all targets on at least one host for one of the
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-W flags. Flags up for debate include: -Wswitch -Wcomment -trigraphs
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-Wtrigraphs -Wunused-function -Wunused-label -Wunused-variable
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-Wunused-value -Wchar-subscripts -Wtraditional -Wshadow -Wcast-qual
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-Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wconversion -Wstrict-prototypes
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-Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wredundant-decls
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-Woverloaded-virtual -Winline
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--
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Deprecate, if not delete, the following:
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register[]
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register_valid[]
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REGISTER_BYTE()
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Replaced by, on the target side
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supply_register()
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and on core-gdb side:
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{read,write}_register_gen()
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Remote.c will need to use something
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other than REGISTER_BYTE() and
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REGISTER_RAW_SIZE() when unpacking
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[gG] packets.
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STORE_PSEUDO_REGISTER
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FETCH_PSEUDO_REGISTER
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Now handed by the methods
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gdbarch_{read,write}_register()
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which sits between core GDB and
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the register cache.
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REGISTER_CONVERTIBLE
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REGISTER_CONVERT_TO_RAW
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REGISTER_CONVERT_TO_VIRTUAL
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I think these three are redundant.
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gdbarch_register_{read,write} can
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do any conversion it likes.
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REGISTER_VIRTUAL_SIZE
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MAX_REGISTER_VIRTUAL_SIZE
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REGISTER_VIRTUAL_TYPE
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I think these can be replaced by
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the pair:
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FRAME_REGISTER_TYPE(frame, regnum)
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REGISTER_TYPE(regnum)
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DO_REGISTERS_INFO
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Replace with
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FRAME_REGISTER_INFO (frame, ...)
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REGISTER_SIM_REGNO()
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If nothing else rename this so that
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how it relates to rawreg and the
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regnum is clear.
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REGISTER_BYTES
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The size of the cache can be computed
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on the fly.
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IS_TRAPPED_INTERNALVAR
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The pseudo registers should eventually make
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this redundant.
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Obsolete the targets:
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arm*-wince-pe
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mips*-*-pe
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sh*-*-pe
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Obsolete the protocols:
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RDB?
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``As of version 5.3, WindRiver has removed the RDB server (RDB
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protocol support is built into gdb).'' -- Till.
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Restructure gdb directory tree so that it avoids any 8.3 and 14
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filename problems.
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Convert GDB build process to AUTOMAKE.
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See also sub-directory configure below.
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The current convention is (kind of) to use $(<header>_h) in all
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dependency lists. It isn't done in a consistent way.
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--
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GDB 5.2 - Known Problems
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========================
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Code Cleanups: General
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======================
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The following are more general cleanups and fixes. They are not tied
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to any specific release.
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New Features and Fixes
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======================
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These are harder than cleanups but easier than work involving
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fundamental architectural change.
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Language Support
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New languages come onto the scene all the time.
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Re: Various C++ things
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value_headof/value_from_vtable_info are worthless, and should be
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removed. The one place in printcmd.c that uses it should use the RTTI
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functions.
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RTTI for g++ should be using the typeinfo functions rather than the
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vtables. The typeinfo functions are always at offset 4 from the
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beginning of the vtable, and are always right. The vtables will have
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weird names like E::VB sometimes. The typeinfo function will always
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be "E type_info function", or somesuch.
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value_virtual_fn_field needs to be fixed so there are no failures for
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virtual functions for C++ using g++.
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Testsuite cases are the major priority right now for C++ support,
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since i have to make a lot of changes that could potentially break
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each other.
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Symbol Support
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==============
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Investiagate ways of reducing memory.
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Investigate ways of improving load time.
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Testsuite Support
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=================
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There are never to many testcases.
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Better thread testsuite.
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Better C++ testsuite.
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Architectural Changes: General
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These are harder than simple cleanups / fixes and, consequently
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involve more work. Typically an Architectural Change will be broken
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down into a more digestible set of cleanups and fixes.
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Architectural Change: Multi-arch et al.
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=======================================
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The long term objective is to remove all assumptions that there is a
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single target with a single address space with a single instruction
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set architecture and single application binary interface.
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This is an ongoing effort. The first milestone is to enable
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``multi-arch'' where by all architectural decisions are made at
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runtime.
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It should be noted that ``gdbarch'' is really ``gdbabi'' and
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``gdbisa''. Once things are multi-arched breaking that down correctly
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will become much easier.
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Architectural Change: MI, LIBGDB and scripting languages
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See also architectural changes related to the event loop. LIBGDB
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can't be finished until there is a generic event loop being used by
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all targets.
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The long term objective is it to be possible to integrate GDB into
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scripting languages.
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Architectural Change: Async
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===========================
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While GDB uses an event loop when prompting the user for input. That
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event loop is not exploited by targets when they allow the target
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program to continue. Typically targets still block in (target_wait())
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until the program again halts.
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The closest a target comes to supporting full asynchronous mode are
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the remote targets ``async'' and ``extended-async''.
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