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Re: RFC add "convenience functions" to gdb


On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 12:31:52PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I use $"..." to denote a host string.
> 
> After this it would be pretty simple to start allowing scripting
> access to all kinds of interesting state: string-valued set/show
> variables, the exe name, the names of functions up and down the stack,
> types, syscalls (whatever happened to that "catch syscall" patch?) --
> anything we can think of.

Hold on a bit; I promised to post my lazy strings patch for Doug and I
have so far failed to do so.  We can use the normal string syntax, as
long as we don't flush them out to the target unless some operation
requires it.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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