Re: GDB plugin

[Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Abhijit" == Abhijit Halder <abhijit.k.halder@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Abhijit> Is there any way to load a GDB plugin (shared library having extended
> Abhijit> functionality) in current GDB? I am planning to develop one. Need
> Abhijit> yours opinion on this.
>
> There is a little bit of this for the JIT functionality.
>
> Generic plugins are trouble because they tend to fix the API -- but we
> want to be able to change the API as needed.  The JIT approach avoided
> this by exporting a custom, minimal API.
>
> What exactly are you planning to do?
>
> Tom

I think the api is not a big trouble, the Linux kernel's api is always
change.  But lkm is still alive.  I use some ifdef to make KGTP can be
work from 2.6.18 to upstream.  I think if GDB can supply some
interface to get the api version, support different api is not very
hard.

Thanks,
Hui