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Re: [PATCH] plugin patch
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- To: Scott Moser <ssmoser at us dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:27:59 +0200 (IST)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] plugin patch
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Scott Moser wrote:
> Below is a patch to add plugin support to GDB. It exports a fairly
> simple programmable interface for people to extend the functionality of
> GDB via runtime loaded shared libraries in ways that may not fit with
> the direction of the main GDB tree (not cross-platform, not stable,
> niche audience...).
IIRC, the FSF doesn't like to add to GNU software support for dynamically
loading arbitrary modules (for fear of non-free libraries being used thru
this).
In any case, if this is approved, please consider documenting it in
gdbint.texinfo. TIA