From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17969 invoked by alias); 13 Mar 2008 16:22:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 17958 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Mar 2008 16:22:09 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from igw3.br.ibm.com (HELO igw3.br.ibm.com) (32.104.18.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:21:43 +0000 Received: from mailhub1.br.ibm.com (unknown [9.18.232.109]) by igw3.br.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B2239037B for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:10:22 -0300 (BRST) Received: from d24av02.br.ibm.com (d24av02.br.ibm.com [9.18.232.47]) by mailhub1.br.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m2DGLad21835216 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:21:36 -0300 Received: from d24av02.br.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d24av02.br.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m2DGLaE7001182 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:21:36 -0300 Received: from [9.18.238.95] ([9.18.238.95]) by d24av02.br.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m2DGLafo001179; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:21:36 -0300 Subject: Re: [RFC] Strings and arrays without malloc From: Thiago Jung Bauermann To: Tom Tromey Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: References: <20080309161335.GA26917@caradoc.them.org> <1205417784.6643.78.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:22:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1205425296.6643.93.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-03/txt/msg00145.txt.bz2 On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 08:00 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > But, the problem with object mappings like this is that managing the > lifetime of the objects in the scripting language can be a pain. I'm > not really a gdb expert so I don't know how difficult this will be in > practice. Well, at least Python seems to have well documented and established conventions on reference counting and ownership, so hopefuly we won't make too much of a mess out of it. > Thiago> I think there are lots of eyes on this Python support thing, > Thiago> including mine. :-) > > Thiago> I'm starting to put some hands on it too, FWIW. > > Let's set up a branch or make a git repository or something like that. > What works for you? A git repo would work. I personally prefer mercurial or bazaar, but git is fine by me. -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann Software Engineer IBM Linux Technology Center