Re: RFC GDB Linux Awareness analysis

[Doug Evans <dje@google.com>]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:54 AM,  <duane@duaneellis.com> wrote:
> duane> 7) A good example of scripting is during postmortem debug
> duane> GDB cannot call (execute) a helper function within the
> duane> target because the target is not “live”
>
> doug> Depends on what the helper function does of course.
> doug> E.g., it's possible to resurrect a corefile (assuming it hasn't
> been
> doug> truncated, etc.) enough to run a pretty-printer contained in the
> doug> app (as opposed to in python).
>
> Yes, as you said "it depends on what it does"

And it depends on the debugging environment.

> I would say almost categorically you *cannot* use the target pretty
> printer.

Whatever. It was just an example.

> Every target is different, every embedded system is different.
>
> Some of these pretty print problems also occur when live debugging.
>
> This whole area is one giant rat hole of problems to make work
> universally.

I think you'll find you're preaching to the choir here.