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Re: how to use libgdb ?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee at tcscal dot co dot in>
- Cc: GDB List <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>, leiming <blackhorse_linux at sina dot com>,Anjuta devel <anjuta-devel at lists dot sourceforge dot net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:32:21 -0400
- Subject: Re: how to use libgdb ?
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209181128320.22989-100000@dmfet> <1032408527.1308.5.camel@A5-1686>
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:38:40AM +0530, Biswapesh Chattopadhyay wrote:
> Hi list
>
> I'm one of the developers of Anjuta (http://anjuta.sf.net/), an IDE for
> GNOME. Currently, we are using a spawned subprocess for GDB interaction.
> This works fairly well, but obviously a shared library with a nice (and
> reasoinably stable) API would be very helpful for IDE developers. So, my
> question is: if GDB build process already builds libgdb.a, would any
> patches to make it build a shared libgdb.so be accepted into the main
> tree ? It might be very useful, for example, for gnome-debug, which is
> an upcoming component for debugging applications using a nice GUI
> interface. This might speed up the responsiveness and enable us to do
> more advanced stuff (such as tracing multiple threads simultaneously).
They would probably not be accepted - or useful, since we don't plan to
maintain a stable ABI. What we do maintain is a stable
machine-parseable interface - MI. See the documentation or list
archives for more about that if you're not familiar with it.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer