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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>
Cc: Abhijit Halder <abhijit.k.halder@gmail.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: custom runtime GDB extensions
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:01:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <508486C7.4080505@gmail.com> (Bruce Korb's message of "Sun, 21	Oct 2012 16:35:35 -0700")
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>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com> writes:

Bruce> I don't know exactly why the dlopen of shared objects is
Bruce> disparaged, because I couldn't find references via Googling.

I think the fundamental reason is that we don't want to keep C API
compatibility in gdb.

There's the JIT API, of course, but it is intentionally very limited.

Tom