Re: [cdt-dev] target unexpectedly stops on a SIGINT while setting breakp

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:15:40AM -0500, Marc Khouzam wrote:
> We only use async mode when using non-stop.  I did consider making the switch
> but two things stopped me:
> 
> 1- lots of regression testing since everything would be using asych GDB mode
> instead of the traditional synch mode.
> 2- We still need to support older GDBs (we support 6.6 and up), so we'd still
> need to keep the code for the sync mode.
> 
> If it is a big enough problem, we could give it a try for GDB 7.0 and fix the problem
> there only, but I'm not sure it is worth the effort.

Only my two cents, but I don't like thinking about the situation this
way.  If we want to give users the best experience, we need to be
aggressive about taking advantage of newer features in GDB.

Not to mention packages that include one particular version of GDB -
like Wascana will, and like any vendor's product.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery