From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1709 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2008 17:40:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 1692 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jul 2008 17:40:27 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:40:07 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F8698376; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:39:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB3A98139; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:39:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KMnkE-00048x-BW; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:39:50 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:40:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: bauerman@br.ibm.com, tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA][patch 1/9] Yet another respin of the patch with initial Python support Message-ID: <20080726173950.GB16470@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , bauerman@br.ibm.com, tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <1216245620.12209.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080718195010.GA14356@caradoc.them.org> <1216653969.31797.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080726134252.GA6077@caradoc.them.org> <20080726144138.GA9711@caradoc.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2008-05-11) 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: 2008-07/txt/msg00485.txt.bz2 On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 08:05:31PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > So are you saying that adding Python will enable features that are > beyond user-defined commands (a.k.a. scripting)? If so, what are > those features? I don't know what any of them are yet. Some examples we've discussed are support for transparent pretty-printing (much more flexible than the existing print macros which just produce text - it will allow you to explore nested objects using gdb's normal value operations, for instance); support for new formats of shared libraries and core files; custom backtracing support for interrupts; and new callable functions in GDB's expression evaluator which produce typed values as if they were inferior function calls. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery