From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20976 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2007 04:31:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 20964 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jan 2007 04:31:07 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:31:02 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p202-124-125-216.snap.net.nz [202.124.125.216]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 376833D829E; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:30:59 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id A4B2D4F702; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:30:57 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17829.48510.868117.403093@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:31:00 -0000 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: GDB and scripting languages - which In-Reply-To: <20070109215337.GA4774@nevyn.them.org> References: <20070108222005.GA27451@nevyn.them.org> <20070109202343.GD9844@cox.net> <17828.2852.359000.383405@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <17828.3474.603062.717814@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20070109215337.GA4774@nevyn.them.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.92.8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-01/txt/msg00188.txt.bz2 > I am actually expecting something much more complicated: for instance, > functions which know how to walk data structures and prettyprint them. > Folks already do that in .gdbinit, but the functions they use can > sometimes be mammoth. The worst one I'm aware of uses "shell awk" > and "set logging" :-) Will asynchronous operation be part of this project? If so I can send a new patch updated to current sources. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob