From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9419 invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2012 10:00:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 9330 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Feb 2012 10:00:01 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-qw0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-qw0-f41.google.com) (209.85.216.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:59:48 +0000 Received: by qadz32 with SMTP id z32so705177qad.0 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:59:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.102.71 with SMTP id f7mr4561193qco.120.1329472788066; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:59:48 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.102.71 with SMTP id f7mr4561178qco.120.1329472787622; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:59:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.224.73.8 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:59:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:09:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC] A new command 'explore' From: Siva Chandra To: Doug Evans Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-System-Of-Record: true X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmO3axhJ/KYEWC2R1YtDM5Pf9iW9dIQGHvbyCmONSAnME0il6TtrtJTUVnaiu+pgRdy2F+iXPAwwDL1z5UD6Uak49upms9McUfFZI1zwKCbqdptqjV3O1A2tj7kxbRDDFzO2sbnzZLg4Io9F23WbQ3s5Zaoeg== 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: 2012-02/txt/msg00361.txt.bz2 > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Siva Chandra wro= te: >> Hello, >> >> I have not yet seen anything about a policy on contributions >> implemented in extension languages. However, I have now implemented >> the 'explore' command in C. The patch is attached. I will add >> documentation after the basics of this patch are approved. >> >> 2012-02-08 Siva Chandra >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 New command 'explore' which helps explore values in scop= e. >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 * explore.c: Implemention of the 'explore' command. >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 * Makefile.in: Add rules for compiling and linked explor= e.c. >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 * testsuite/gdb.base/explore.c: C program used for testi= ng >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 the new 'explore' command. >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 * testsuite/gdb.base/explore.exp: Tests for the new 'exp= lore' >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 command. >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 * testsuite/gdb.base/Makefile.in: Add explore to EXECUTA= BLES > Doug > I'm not sure what others prefer, but I like the python version. Doug > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-12/msg00831.html Doug > Please write the docs, etc. for the python version, and I'll review Doug > and approve it (modulo the docs, but Eli is pretty responsive). BTW, did you mean that you prefer the python version because of its better quality, or is it because of it being in python? Thanks, Siva Chandra