From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12333 invoked by alias); 25 Jan 2002 22:41:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11978 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2002 22:41:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out1.apple.com) (17.254.0.52) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Jan 2002 22:41:41 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out1.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0PMfbQ03939 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:41:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from scv3.apple.com (scv3.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:41:17 -0800 Received: from apple.com (il0204a-dhcp35.apple.com [17.202.45.163]) by scv3.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0PMfa610548; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:41:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C51DF21.B38AD7F8@apple.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:41:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Salman Khilji CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Questions for GDB Developers References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00303.txt.bz2 Salman Khilji wrote: > > 1) Suppose we have to isolate the symbol dictionary code into a separate > library so that this library can potentially be used to create a new > debugger. Which source files do we have to include in this library? I am > talking about the code that reads object/symbol files, determines the > addresses and types of global variables and dynamically allocated memory. I > am not interested in stack variables. In general, we haven't been interested in doing this, because the usual rationale has been to violate GDB's licensing terms by making proprietary debuggers. If this is for a new free debugger, then it's worth talking further. Stan