From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB and scripting languages - which
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070109215337.GA4774@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17828.3474.603062.717814@kahikatea.snap.net.nz>
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:48:02AM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote:
> > I would think it's good to stay away from TCL. I won't say more
> > because I don't want to start a language war. Python can certainly be
> > scripted, and it has good support for testsuite type things.
>
> TCL is what Totalview uses for it's CLI; it's quite adequate for basic
> programming. How complex will these scripts be? Generally .gdbinit is
> just a series of small functions.
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" :-)
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-08 22:20 Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-08 22:39 ` Kip Macy
2007-01-08 22:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-08 23:03 ` Kip Macy
2007-01-08 22:40 ` Bob Rossi
2007-01-09 20:11 ` Jim Blandy
2007-01-09 20:23 ` Bob Rossi
2007-01-09 21:37 ` Paul Koning
2007-01-09 21:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-09 21:48 ` Nick Roberts
2007-01-09 21:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-01-11 4:31 ` Nick Roberts
2007-01-11 5:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-13 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-09 21:55 ` Kip Macy
2007-01-11 14:56 ` Robert Dewar
2007-01-11 15:07 ` Robert Dewar
2007-01-09 20:30 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-01-13 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-10 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-10 18:10 ` Pedro Alves
2007-02-10 20:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-12 17:47 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-12 21:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-12 21:59 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-12 22:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-12 22:07 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 5:57 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-14 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-14 16:01 ` Paul Koning
2007-02-14 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-14 16:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-14 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-14 18:45 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-14 17:37 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-14 18:29 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-14 18:34 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 20:14 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-14 20:56 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 21:47 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-14 21:23 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-14 21:46 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 20:10 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-15 1:03 ` Gaius Mulley
2007-02-17 13:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-17 14:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-18 4:11 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-19 22:17 ` Jim Blandy
2007-01-15 18:29 Kaz Kylheku
2007-01-15 21:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-16 0:17 ` Kip Macy
2007-01-17 19:09 ` Jim Blandy
2007-01-16 0:38 Kaz Kylheku
2007-01-17 19:24 ` Jim Blandy
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