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Re: Changes
- From: Jan Blunck <jblunck at suse dot de>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Frysk List <frysk at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:50:59 +0200
- Subject: Re: Changes
- Organization: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
- References: <m33ami66rk.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
On Wed, Jul 09, Tom Tromey wrote:
> * Scripting. One issue with gdb is its poor support for scripting.
> We think scripting is needed for debugger programmability, and in
> particular that it will be needed for C++ pretty-printing. So, our
> thinking is that this debugger would have a Python binding to its
> core.
>
> In order to exercise this binding code, we picture rewriting the
> existing CLI code in Python. The idea here is that part of the CLI
> need a rewrite anyhow, and there is no particular reason that the
> CLI needs to be written in C++.
I find it somehow unnatural that the scripting capabilities are based on
python while the target language is C/C++.
>From my point of view it would make sense to use a language similar to C, e.g.
like SIAL. Or at least provide the scripting capabilities as plugins.
Cheers,
Jan