Re: Gdb in emacs 24

[Stefan Monnier]

Stefan> How 'bout some way to just check whether `mi' is the
Stefan> current interpreter.  It doesn't have to be a dedicated command, just
Stefan> a command which will reliably behave differently (e.g. return some
Stefan> recognizable value if `mi' is used, and return an error if not).

> Pretty much any MI command will do that, e.g., "-list-features".

Then could someone patch gdb-mi.el to use this as a test and send
a clear error message to the user about the need for "-i=mi"?
I think it's too late to use "interpreter exec" for 24.1, but such
a test would at least address some of the bug reports I've seen where
users had used "--annotate=3".


        Stefan