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Marchesi via Gdb-patches" Cc: Tom Tromey , "Jose E. Marchesi" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Integrate GNU poke in GDB References: <20210510151044.20829-1-jose.marchesi@oracle.com> <87k0o56qvz.fsf@tromey.com> <87bl9gnzpe.fsf@oracle.com> X-Attribution: Tom Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 09:52:48 -0600 In-Reply-To: <87bl9gnzpe.fsf@oracle.com> (Jose E. Marchesi via Gdb-patches's message of "Wed, 12 May 2021 10:06:21 +0200") Message-ID: <875yzm6373.fsf@tromey.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - box5379.bluehost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - sourceware.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - tromey.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 75.166.134.27 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1lhDdp-001x3v-8Q X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: 75-166-134-27.hlrn.qwest.net (murgatroyd) [75.166.134.27]:52792 X-Source-Auth: tom+tromey.com X-Email-Count: 10 X-Source-Cap: ZWx5bnJvYmk7ZWx5bnJvYmk7Ym94NTM3OS5ibHVlaG9zdC5jb20= X-Local-Domain: yes X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3026.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_NEUTRAL, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: gdb-patches@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Gdb-patches mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 15:52:53 -0000 >>>>> "Jose" == Jose E Marchesi via Gdb-patches writes: Jose> poke STR Jose> poke-add-type EXPR Jose> poke-add-types REGEXP Jose> poke-dump-types >> It's maybe more gdb-ish to make one command and use subcommands. Jose> What would be the gdb-ish way: Jose> a) poke STR Jose> poke add-type EXPR Jose> poke add-types REGEXP Jose> poke dump-types Jose> or Jose> b) poke STR Jose> poke add type EXPR Jose> poke add types REGEXP Jose> poke dump types Jose> Because a) will be problematic: `add-types' can be a valid Poke Jose> expression if both `add' and `types' are defined as variables. Jose> Doing b) would be ok I think. Either is fine, though (b) is more of a pain to implement. If the plain prefix command is ambiguous, you can have it work like "set", where "set X" evaluates X, but "set var" is a subcommand to avoid the ambiguous case. Jose> But I am not really looking forward to write Python bindings for libpoke Jose> (or Python for anything for that matter) and even if I could recruit Jose> someone to do that work, the stuff would need to be maintained ... poke Jose> depending on Python, supporting future Python versions and what not, Jose> argh no no no no :) Just to be clear, gdb often has a high burden to get a patch in. For example, do you have a gdb copyright assignment in place? We can't accept your patch until that's done. Jose> PS: If GDB supported writing plugins in C or C++ like bash does, I Jose> wouldn't blink twice before adopting your suggestion! I would be opposed to this. This would require stabilizing some gdb API, which I think would be difficult and probably counter-productive. Tom