Re: Trying to debug assemly

[aprekates <aprekates@posteo.net>]

|||I've learned about three ways to initiate a debugging session in  
emacs with gdb.|

||a.  M-x gud-gdb||

|||b.  M-x gdb|

|c.  M-x gdb  --interpreter=mi
|

|Does option a. uses GDB/MI interface?|

|Alexandros.
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On 19/12/19 2:38 π.μ., aprekates wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> So if i want to debug in emacs with gdb and have ide like 
> functionality , giving me the ability to create breakpoint by clicking 
> next to source lines or windows with updates on variables, registers , 
> memory region etc then gdb must be able ta accept 'machine' like 
> commands from the emacs gdb frontent.
>
> Alexandros.
>
> GDB/MI
>
> On 18/12/19 10:39 π.μ., tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 04:30:38AM +0200, aprekates wrote:
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> That worked. Although i dont quite understand what is the /GDB/MI
>>> interface./
>> GDB/MI is the so-called "machine interface". Back Then (TM), GDB was
>> just an interactive program: you type in things, GDB displays things
>> to you. With time, more-or-less graphical front ends appeared (among
>> them, of course, something written in Emacs). It became clear that
>> the interactive user interface wasn't the ideal way for a program to
>> control GDB, and thus MI was born.
>>
>> Cheers
>> -- t
>