From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29469 invoked by alias); 6 Nov 2002 14:45:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 29370 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2002 14:45:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e32.co.us.ibm.com) (32.97.110.130) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Nov 2002 14:45:31 -0000 Received: from westrelay01.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.194.22]) by e32.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA6EjJYO035230; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:45:25 -0500 Received: from dmfet (dmfet.austin.ibm.com [9.53.216.34]) by westrelay01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.3/NCO/VER6.4) with ESMTP id gA6EjIuk224276; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:45:19 -0700 Received: from smoser (helo=localhost) by dmfet with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 189RQk-0000hc-00; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 08:45:18 -0600 Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 06:45:00 -0000 From: Scott Moser X-X-Sender: smoser@dmfet To: Eli Zaretskii cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] plugin patch In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg00095.txt.bz2 All, I sent a patch to add plugin support to GDB under this subject last week, and hadn't received a response other than the one below. I'll gladly document the plugin in gdbint.texinfo if needed. IBM made a copyright assignment agreement previously and I have the required papers to assign this patch also. I don't think that beneficial functionality should be kept from gdb simply because people might use it in unfriendly ways. Anyone interested in taking gdb functionality could still get the GDB source and highjack that (which would even be less obvious to detect than shipping a file and telling the user to "plugin load" it within GDB). If my patch was submitted incorrectly, there was something else that I was missing, or anything else I'd need to change/update/add, please let me know. Thanks, Scott On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Scott Moser wrote: > > > Below is a patch to add plugin support to GDB. It exports a fairly > > simple programmable interface for people to extend the functionality of > > GDB via runtime loaded shared libraries in ways that may not fit with > > the direction of the main GDB tree (not cross-platform, not stable, > > niche audience...). > > IIRC, the FSF doesn't like to add to GNU software support for dynamically > loading arbitrary modules (for fear of non-free libraries being used thru > this). > > In any case, if this is approved, please consider documenting it in > gdbint.texinfo. TIA > > Scott Moser Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx (512) 838-1533 T/L: 678-1533 ssmoser@us.ibm.com , internal zip: 9812