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To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>,        "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: duplicated code in gdb and gdbserver
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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:39:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinMZ6hchkv1h+H265Eu7+Zsb4GizJ2XA5-VUnEO@mail.gmail.com> (Doug Evans's message of "Fri, 7 Jan 2011 08:37:04 -0800")
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Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:

> [...]
> What I'd like to see (repeated here for the list's sake, with
> apologies to the irc crowd :-)), is a publicly usable library (or
> collection of libraries) used by gdb and gdbserver.  [I'd like to see
> more of the gnu tools made available as libraries, btw.]

A differently aimed step toward this could be to remove duplication
between gdb native and gdbserver by gradually *deprecating gdb native
support*.  A library API for the remote protocol would be a natural
non-symbolic/process-control programming interface.

- FChE