Re: gdb + perl

[Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com>]

I know it is bad form to follow-up on one's own messages, but since I
took the time to pull the changes into 6.0 I thought I'd make them
available to anyone who might be curious about it.

Documentation:
http://www.fsmware.com/gdb/gdb_ffi.html
Tarball:
http://www.fsmware.com/gdb/gdb-6.0-perl.tgz

perl support can be turned on by passing --enable-ffiperl to configure.


Even if it isn't deemed appropriate for mainline inclusion, I'm eager to
hear any feedback.

Thanks.

				-Kip


On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Kip Macy wrote:

> In order to increase the amount of triage that could be fully automated
> by developers I recently added support to my company's in-house GDB
> tree for  writing macros using external scripting languages. Because
> perl is the most popular scripting language in-house, that is the
> language I've gone with for the initial implementation. To the base GDB
> command set I've added three commands: runperl, sourceperl, and
> resetperl. "runperl" runs a perl script from gdb using a non-persistent
> interpreter. "sourceperl" runs a perl script from gdb that uses
> a persistent interpreter. This allows one to register callbacks with
> GDB to add to the command set, much like "define" for gdb macro
> language. "resetperl" destroys and rebuilds the persistent interpreter.
> All communication between perl and gdb (except for callback
> registration) goes through the MI interface, so the changes to GDB are
> quite minimal. I've written a perl parser for demarshalling the MI
> output and a library on top of that that users can use to define
> GDB scripts. I've also converted a number of in-house GDB macros
> to perl to demonstrate to others how it is done.
>
> I'm posting this to the list to ask if this is something that people
> would like to see incorporated into the base GDB.
>
>
>
> 				-Kip
>