Re: repo to work on python scripting support

Tom Tromey
2008-03-25T06:28:09Z

>>>>> "Thiago" == Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com> writes:

Thiago> My turn at the status update. :-)

Thanks for sending this. Funnily enough I was just thinking about
asking you to write up an example :)

I've been thinking... maybe we do want $(...) to allow things other
than Python commands. Or, more precisely, maybe we want to let Python
code register a function by name for use in $(...). The Python
function would get the uninterpreted string argument for processing.

My reason is that after playing a bit, I'm not over-fond of the
verboseness and extra quoting required by the Python bits. It is more
gdb-ish, I think, not to do this.

Any opinions?

The canonical example is a function to match the calling function at a
breakpoint. gdb-ish:

break inner if $(caller-is outer)

Pythonic:

break inner if $(gdb.caller_is ('outer'))

BTW other suggestions for fun demos are not only accepted, they are
actually helpful. I tend to drive my gdb-python hacking by picking
target functionality. My last hack was making it so I could override
the (barely useful IMO) 'edit' command to instead emit an annotation
that Emacs will pick up :-)

Tom