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Re: GDB C API -- does such a thing exist?
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>, Ãmer Sinan AÄacan <omeragacan at gmail dot com>, gdb <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:06:35 +0200
- Subject: Re: GDB C API -- does such a thing exist?
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:54:13 +0200, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > No. Well let me qualify. There is a libgdb, but I have never used it
> > and I am not sure anyone has for some many years. I am not sure how
> > maintained it is either. Someone else might know more.
>
> I don't think there is a libgdb anymore. IIRC, Jan eliminated it,
> because it was increasing the amount of time needed to be linked
> (first generate the .a, next build using the .a).
I did not eliminate it, one still can run "make libgdb.a". "libgdb.a" is just
no longer build by default as "libgdb.a" is no longer built as a part of the
"gdb" target to make the build faster.
Jan