From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4595 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2002 00:43:11 -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 4588 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2002 00:43:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO touchme.toronto.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 31 Jul 2002 00:43:10 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (totem.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.242]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 159A9B8049; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:43:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D47329E.CEEFD898@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:43:00 -0000 From: Fernando Nasser Organization: Red Hat , Inc. - Toronto X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anthony Green Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: naming command arguments References: <1027556059.2082.179.camel@dhcppc2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00309.txt.bz2 Anthony, We have already detected that the current GDB CLI has been stretched to its limits and the we need something more powerful. We all want a real script language for GDB. The official choice for this language (accordingly to FSF) is Guile but we wanted to make it possible for people to add their script language of choice. Libgdb and the MI were expected to help us to achieve that. Unfortunately this can still take some time. Anyway, trying to fix the CLI at large will probably create more headaches than benefits. But we can try and do something for a few cases where it is really a big impediment (like your example). IMO the only plausible options are the two ones listed by Andrew. Regards, Fernando -- Fernando Nasser Red Hat - Toronto E-Mail: fnasser@redhat.com 2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300 Toronto, Ontario M4P 2C9