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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB Python API issues
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wrbcnjtb.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOFGe94qCnG=FUn07VhegVQJOm4swPKfnA7=NFvSuZy39VUM6Q@mail.gmail.com>	(Jason Ekstrand's message of "Sat, 5 Nov 2011 21:55:17 -0500")

>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net> writes:

Jason> Hi, I've used GDB for a quite a while now, but have never dug into GDB
Jason> development. Recently, I started working on a project that heavily
Jason> abuses GDB's python API. I'm trying to essentially write a more
Jason> up-to-date replacement for DDD that, instead of parsing GDB output or
Jason> tying directly into it on a C level, pulls data from inside using
Jason> GDB's python API.

You could also simply put the GUI inside of gdb... :)
The 'gdb.post_event' function basically exists so you can do this and
run the GUI in a separate thread.

Jason> As I've been working on this project, I've started to find all sorts
Jason> of use cases that the API, as it currently stands, doesn't seem to
Jason> support. I'm willing to help, but I don't quite know where to start
Jason> and I wanted to talk to someone before I start submitting a stream of
Jason> bug reports.

You can bring up ideas and problems here on the list if you like.

A stream of bug reports would also be ok.

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-07 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-06  2:55 Jason Ekstrand
2011-11-06  4:51 ` Hui Zhu
2011-11-07 13:28 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-11-07 13:35 ` Phil Muldoon

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