Re: how to use libgdb ?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:38:40AM +0530, Biswapesh Chattopadhyay wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> I'm one of the developers of Anjuta (http://anjuta.sf.net/), an IDE for
> GNOME. Currently, we are using a spawned subprocess for GDB interaction.
> This works fairly well, but obviously a shared library with a nice (and
> reasoinably stable) API would be very helpful for IDE developers. So, my
> question is: if GDB build process already builds libgdb.a, would any
> patches to make it build a shared libgdb.so be accepted into the main
> tree ? It might be very useful, for example, for gnome-debug, which is
> an upcoming component for debugging applications using a nice GUI
> interface. This might speed up the responsiveness and enable us to do
> more advanced stuff (such as tracing multiple threads simultaneously).

They would probably not be accepted - or useful, since we don't plan to
maintain a stable ABI.  What we do maintain is a stable
machine-parseable interface - MI.  See the documentation or list
archives for more about that if you're not familiar with it.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer