ddbg_gdb with emacs

[Jascha Wetzel]

does 0.0.4 work with emacs? i didn't check, just fixed the missing
filename issue and added "print".

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Jascha Wetzel wrote:
>> if it's just for these few changes - they will be in the next release.
>> if i'll have to put a larger amount of work into the CLI issue, i'd
>> really prefer implementing GDB/MI. besides the fact that something like
>> GDB/MI is the most reasonable way to solve the problem, eclipse/cdt
>> supports it as well.
> 
> I just had a bit of exchange with the GDB folks and gdb-mi.el author on
> the gdb mailing list.  Apparently gdb-mi.el is still under development
> and needs work.  And it also needs the latest bleeding edge gdb.  Well,
> version 6.6 anyway, which is newer than you can get from MinGW or Cygwin.
> 
> So I wasn't able to get the MI mode working in emacs.  But in theory it
> should work if you emulate what gdb 6.6 spits out.  And if not, then in
> theory it should work /eventually/ as more bugs are worked out of the
> emacs mode.
> 
> Unfortunately, since I haven't been able to confirm that gdb-mi mode
> works in emacs, that means I can't be a very useful tester of ddbg when
> it comes to emacs and gdb-MI emulation.  I can tell you if it works --
> but if it doesn't work then it's just as likely to be a problem with the
> gdb-mi code as with your emulation.
> 
> --bb
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