From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16875 invoked by alias); 8 May 2012 14:20:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 16865 invoked by uid 22791); 8 May 2012 14:20:49 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 08 May 2012 14:20:35 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q48EKYLs025765 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 8 May 2012 10:20:34 -0400 Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q48Dj9c4027804 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 8 May 2012 09:45:10 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: Abhijit Halder Cc: "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org ml" Subject: Re: GDB plugin References: <87vck7wxs7.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 14:20:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Abhijit Halder's message of "Tue, 8 May 2012 11:16:11 +0530") Message-ID: <871umuwzve.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.95 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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: 2012-05/txt/msg00227.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Abhijit" == Abhijit Halder writes: Abhijit> I am planning to introduce a pluggin command in GDB which will give a Abhijit> flexibility to a GDB user to develop his/her own GDB extension (e.g. Abhijit> GDB-ext.so). The extension may have new and/or extended functionality Abhijit> like support for new languages and platforms and custom GDB-command. Abhijit> The extension can be loaded by this newly proposed plugin command. Abhijit> I am not completely aware of the limitation of this approach, but it Abhijit> makes me happy thinking that the GDB users who want to extend GDB Abhijit> functionality but are not well accustomed with GDB source code, can Abhijit> still write their own pluggins and use an enhanced GDB without the Abhijit> pain of recompilation of entire GDB source code. I think most users are better off writing extensions in Python. We can expose more internals to Python as needed for this. Tom