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From: "Paul A. Clarke" <pac@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
Cc: "Howell, David P" <david.p.howell@intel.com>,
	Scott Moser <ssmoser@us.ibm.com>,
	gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] plugin patch
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 11:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1036612382.539.27.camel@pclarke> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DC969B5.6030003@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 13:12, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > Instead of having to add this to the standard gdb as a one-off for NGPT,
> > I can use the standard gdb and design them as plug-ins to be loaded only
> > when debugging NGPT applications. This feels a lot cleaner and could be 
> > applied for other gdb features/architectures to keep the core as small 
> > and efficient as possible, loading additional support/features on demand
> > only when needed.
> 
> That is the theory already.  Reality differs though, there is always 
> more work to do :-(.  That work is, however, independant of a plug-in 
> module.

Andrew,

Can you clarify what you mean here?  You seem to be implying that there
are plans to support on demand (dynamic) loading of features, which
sounds a lot like plug-ins.

Regards,
Paul Clarke


  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-06 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-06  7:47 Howell, David P
2002-11-06  7:55 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-11-06 11:12 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-11-06 11:55   ` Paul A. Clarke [this message]
2002-11-06 12:29     ` Andrew Cagney
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-28 14:01 Scott Moser
2002-10-28 22:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-29  7:55   ` Paul A. Clarke
2002-11-06  6:45   ` Scott Moser
2002-11-06  6:56     ` Jelmer Vernooij
2002-11-06  7:13       ` Scott Moser
2002-11-06  7:54         ` Jelmer Vernooij
2002-11-06  9:14           ` Andrew Cagney
2002-11-06 15:07             ` Paul A. Clarke
2002-11-06 15:56               ` Andrew Cagney
2002-11-07 10:05                 ` Paul A. Clarke
2002-11-07 11:57                   ` Andrew Cagney
2002-11-07 13:10                   ` Klee Dienes
2002-11-06 15:56 ` Andrew Cagney

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