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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches ml <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Implement post_event for Python scripts.
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100727162956.GG13267@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C45F0B0.5000903@redhat.com>

> +@findex gdb.post_event
> +@defun post_event event
> +Put @var{event}, a callable object taking no arguments, into
> +@value{GDBN}'s internal event queue.  This callable will be invoked at
> +some later point, during @value{GDBN}'s event processing.  Events
> +posted using @code{post_event} will be run in the order in which they
> +were posted; however, there is no way to know when they will be
> +processed relative to other events inside @value{GDBN}.

Would it be useful to provide an exemple of how this feature could
be used?  It does not seem obvious, and I am not sure without reading
the GDB Manual that users are familiar with GDB's internal even queue...

-- 
Joel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-27 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-20 18:53 Phil Muldoon
2010-07-20 19:08 ` Tom Tromey
2010-07-27 16:30 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2010-07-28 14:18   ` Phil Muldoon
2010-07-28 17:31     ` Joel Brobecker
2010-07-30 21:43       ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-03 14:26         ` Phil Muldoon
2010-08-03 17:00           ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-11 18:35           ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-11 19:05             ` Joel Brobecker
2010-08-11 21:08             ` Phil Muldoon
2010-07-28 17:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-18 13:46 ` Pedro Alves
2010-08-18 14:36   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-08-18 17:39     ` Pedro Alves
2010-08-18 18:13   ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-20  0:35     ` Pedro Alves

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