From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16449 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2002 23:47:38 -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 16433 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2002 23:47:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.83.203) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2002 23:47:36 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (romulus.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.251]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA10045; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:47:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3CC4A04E.ABABE125@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:47:00 -0000 From: Fernando Nasser Organization: Red Hat Canada X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Moser , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: GDB plugin proposal References: <3CC49F1A.DC56EDBE@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00373.txt.bz2 Fernando Nasser wrote: > > > - Its possible that GDB would eventually want to allow an LGPL like > > interface for plugins so that binary only plugins could be created. > > > > We are trying to create a libgdb which would be used to create the > interactive debugger as well as be incorporated into other tools. > Once this is achieved, the possibility of making the libgdb a LGPL'ed > library will have to be discussed. > I should have mentioned that this is not happening that soon. We have come a long way from the monolithic GDB program, but there is still quite a bit of work to do and there is no funding for that at the moment. This library was the central part of my parallel debugger, PGDB, which I start to develop while a grad student at Univ. of Toronto circa 1993. I have been trying to get a pure libgdb library done ever since. ;-) -- Fernando Nasser Red Hat Canada Ltd. E-Mail: fnasser@redhat.com 2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300 Toronto, Ontario M4P 2C9