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Re: [RFC] Debug Methods in GDB Python
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: Siva Chandra <sivachandra at google dot com>
- Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:42:42 -0800
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Debug Methods in GDB Python
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Doug Evans <dje@google.com> wrote:
>>> IIRC the "ext_lang" stuff was going to be deleted, right?
>>
>> I am not sure. Tom had a comment long time back on this, but his
>> latest review said that his comments on this might be irrelevant now.
>> I have renamed some of the pieces related to this in my last patch. Do
>> you have any specific comments?
>
> The name is a tad confusing, though I'm warming up to it.
> The high order bit for me is you're really just abstracting away a
> subset of a much bigger problem space: The abstraction of all calls
> from gdb-proper to the extension language.
For reference sake,
I have a patch that addresses the general problem.
I'll be submitting it after a couple more cleanups are committed.