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Re: gdb + perl
- From: Kip Macy <kmacy at fsmware dot com>
- To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 19:30:59 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: gdb + perl
- References: <20040130153706.N34716@demos.bsdclusters.com><20040130193848.B41210@demos.bsdclusters.com> <20040203140551.53a2052c@saguaro>
> Thanks for making your changes available.
Thanks for replying.
>
> I happen to like the idea of providing access to perl from GDB, but then
> I also happen to like perl.
I happen to really *not like* perl. However, this is targeted at the
developers at my company who predominantly do like perl. I don't know
what would be the ideal language. I've actually started ocaml support.
As far as mainstream scripting languages go, I would've chosen python.
I've structured the such that the only real work is writing a parser
for MI output in the target language. I export the MI functionality and
callback mechanism through a language independent interface.
> 2) GDB is a GNU project and as such would probably use guile as its
> primary extension language. (Of course, there could be others.)
I would add support for guile if doing so would get the FFI code
incorporated into mainline GDB.
>
> I haven't looked at your work at all yet. Do you think it would be
> possible to develop an extension language API that could be used by
> perl as well as other extension languages?
That wouldn't be a giant leap.
> That way, it'd be possible
> to do extension language plugins, of which your work would be one.
> It'd also be possible (and easier) to maintain the code you've written
> independent of mainline GDB.
On a more general note I'd like to see loadable module support added to
GDB. This would allow people to maintain GDB extensions independently of
GDB. There are a number of things that I see adding to GDB that are only
interesting if you have a very large complex system and hence would
never be interesting for the majority of GDB users.
-Kip