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Re: custom runtime GDB extensions
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Bruce Korb <bruce dot korb at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Abhijit Halder <abhijit dot k dot halder at gmail dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:01:38 -0600
- Subject: Re: custom runtime GDB extensions
- References: <508486C7.4080505@gmail.com>
>>>>> "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