Re: [PATCH 4/4]: Enable readline under "python"

[Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>]

>>>>> "Yit" == Khoo Yit Phang <khooyp@cs.umd.edu> writes:

Yit> 1) either reimplement the readline module that carefully swaps
Yit> configurations between GDB and Python; 2) or run Python's readline in
Yit> a separate controlling terminal with a proxy readline module in GDB.

#2 seems extremely hard.
Maybe #1 is possible, I don't know.

Yit> 2012-07-16  Khoo Yit Phang <khooyp@cs.umd.edu>
Yit> 	Enable readline in Python in a GDB-specific way and block the
Yit> 	standard Python readline module to prevent conflicts with GDB.
Yit> 	* Makefile.in (SUBDIR_PYTHON_OBS): Add py-gdb-readline.o.
Yit> 	(SUBDIR_PYTHON_SRCS): Add python/py-gdb-readline.c.
Yit> 	(py-gdb-readline.o): Add rule to compile python/py-gdb-readline.c.
Yit> 	* python/py-gdb-readline.c: New file.
Yit> 	* python/python-internal.h (gdbpy_initialize_gdb_readline): New
Yit> 	prototype.
Yit> 	* python/python.c (_initialize_python): Call
Yit> 	gdbpy_initialize_gdb_readline.

This one is ok; but of course it depends on an earlier patch so it can't
go in until that is resolved.

Tom