From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19053 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2007 17:37:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 19042 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Feb 2007 17:37:30 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from heller.inter.net.il (HELO heller.inter.net.il) (213.8.233.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:37:18 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([81.5.56.116]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id BWK20046 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:37:00 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:50:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Paul Koning CC: jimb@codesourcery.com, gdb@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <17875.12193.518053.390106@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (message from Paul Koning on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:49:53 -0500) Subject: Re: GDB and scripting languages - which Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20070108222005.GA27451@nevyn.them.org> <20070210203307.GA27502@nevyn.them.org> <17875.12193.518053.390106@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-02/txt/msg00131.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:49:53 -0500 > From: Paul Koning > Cc: jimb@codesourcery.com, > gdb@sourceware.org > > Overhead how? Overhead in GDB size and complexity. > Having a full-fledged language is a good thing. That way you're not > as likely to run into the "this simple extension language isn't > powerful enough to do the things I need" problem. Lua isn't a simple extension language, either.