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Next: <a href="GDB_002fMI-Command-Syntax.html#GDB_002fMI-Command-Syntax" accesskey="n" rel="next">GDB/MI Command Syntax</a>, Up: <a href="GDB_002fMI.html#GDB_002fMI" accesskey="u" rel="up">GDB/MI</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<h3 class="section">27.1 <small>GDB/MI</small> General Design</h3>
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<a name="index-GDB_002fMI-General-Design"></a>
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<p>Interaction of a <small>GDB/MI</small> frontend with <small>GDB</small> involves three
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parts—commands sent to <small>GDB</small>, responses to those commands
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and notifications. Each command results in exactly one response,
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indicating either successful completion of the command, or an error.
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For the commands that do not resume the target, the response contains the
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requested information. For the commands that resume the target, the
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response only indicates whether the target was successfully resumed.
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Notifications is the mechanism for reporting changes in the state of the
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target, or in <small>GDB</small> state, that cannot conveniently be associated with
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a command and reported as part of that command response.
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<p>The important examples of notifications are:
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<li> Exec notifications. These are used to report changes in
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target state—when a target is resumed, or stopped. It would not
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be feasible to include this information in response of resuming
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commands, because one resume commands can result in multiple events in
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different threads. Also, quite some time may pass before any event
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happens in the target, while a frontend needs to know whether the resuming
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command itself was successfully executed.
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</li><li> Console output, and status notifications. Console output
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notifications are used to report output of CLI commands, as well as
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diagnostics for other commands. Status notifications are used to
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report the progress of a long-running operation. Naturally, including
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this information in command response would mean no output is produced
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until the command is finished, which is undesirable.
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</li><li> General notifications. Commands may have various side effects on
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the <small>GDB</small> or target state beyond their official purpose. For example,
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a command may change the selected thread. Although such changes can
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be included in command response, using notification allows for more
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orthogonal frontend design.
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</li></ul>
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<p>There’s no guarantee that whenever an MI command reports an error,
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<small>GDB</small> or the target are in any specific state, and especially,
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the state is not reverted to the state before the MI command was
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processed. Therefore, whenever an MI command results in an error,
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we recommend that the frontend refreshes all the information shown in
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the user interface.
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