Re: The main event(s)...

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>                 Rather than wait for GDB to
>                 do this for you, could I suggest
>                 creating a layer that sits
>                 between GDB and INSIGHT and
>                 have that massage the current
>                 events into something more
>                 meaningful.
> 

That is already done.  GDB hooks (events) are transformed into Insight
hooks (events) by the "interface.tcl" code.  The choice of events (on
both sides) are not very good at the moment and can be improved.

>                 That should avoid the problem
>                 of INSIGHT constantly wanting
>                 to change the event hooks
>                 in GDB.
> 

If a proper study is performed once, the set of events is bound to last
almost with no changes.  The problem now is that the events were created
ad hoc.

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