On Friday 09 November 2007, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 05:43:29AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > is there a way to do indirection of evaluating statements ?  in other
> > words, is there an equivalent of the shell "eval" command ?  so something
> > like:
>
> Nope.  Nor any of your other ideas, sorry.
>
> I remain more interested in scripting language integration than
> extending the current CLI.

does that mean lang hooks exist or that it is the planned route for future 
work ?

> For instance, one big hangup with eval is 
> that we have no real concept of strings.

i did notice that anytime i tried to use a string, gdb complained about lack 
of target defining a malloc symbol ...
-mike