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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFC add "convenience functions" to gdb
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080308203027.GA25644@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m38x0t107r.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-08 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-01  5:50 Tom Tromey
2008-03-01  7:05 ` Tom Tromey
2008-03-08 20:24 ` Tom Tromey
2008-03-08 20:30   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-03-08 20:35     ` Tom Tromey

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