On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Eli Zaretskii
<eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 00:25:00 +0800
> Cc: 10580@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Those are status messages from turning on GDB's MI (machine interface)
> system, I think, though I don't see why it makes so much difference in
> your case.
>
> If you type, from the shell,
>
> gdb -i=mi YOUR-BINARY
> r
>
> do you similarly see a huge output?
As you know, in addition to "run", gdb-mi.el sends lots of other
commands behind the scenes, so the above is not a faithful simulation
of what happens when GDB is run by Emacs. But I agree that if the
above produces similarly voluminous output, we cannot really blame
gdb-mi.el.