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To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 3/9] export hooks mechanism to Python
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>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

Joel> Since you need to be able to write some python code that "reacts to
Joel> *GDB events*", I think that observers are exactly what you are looking
Joel> for.

Tom> Thanks, I will look at that.

In case anybody is wondering about the status of this, today I changed
the Python support to use observers rather than events.  I deleted
some old event-based stuff that I think was not in use, and added a
couple observers.

Tom