From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20430 invoked by alias); 6 Nov 2002 19:55:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20423 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2002 19:55:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e5.ny.us.ibm.com) (32.97.182.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Nov 2002 19:55:25 -0000 Received: from northrelay01.pok.ibm.com (northrelay01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.149]) by e5.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA6Jt6FT039562; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:55:06 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (pclarke.austin.ibm.com [9.53.216.242]) by northrelay01.pok.ibm.com (8.12.3/NCO/VER6.4) with ESMTP id gA6Jt4HW027774; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:55:04 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] plugin patch From: "Paul A. Clarke" To: Andrew Cagney Cc: "Howell, David P" , Scott Moser , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <3DC969B5.6030003@redhat.com> References: <331AD7BED1579543AD146F5A1A44D5251279DE@fmsmsx403.fm.intel.com> <3DC969B5.6030003@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 11:55:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1036612382.539.27.camel@pclarke> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg00114.txt.bz2 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