From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26737 invoked by alias); 9 Nov 2007 14:07:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 26639 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Nov 2007 14:07:04 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:06:59 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF9998353; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:06:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82ECB98100; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:06:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IqUVc-0008Sk-Ms; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:06:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:07:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mike Frysinger Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: misc extended scripting bits Message-ID: <20071109140656.GC32113@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Frysinger , gdb@sourceware.org References: <200711090443.30594.vapier@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200711090443.30594.vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) 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: 2007-11/txt/msg00069.txt.bz2 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. For instance, one big hangup with eval is that we have no real concept of strings. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery