From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
To: Matthew Hall <matthewwwhall@googlemail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: libgdb
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <472B88CE.2010004@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79b61a440711020945y21ac07ei825b9c3e7ee1cc39@mail.gmail.com>
Matthew Hall wrote:
> I've seen references to a libgdb project.
>
An idea left over from ancient days, never got off the ground. The
theory was that one could link it into both the traditional command-line
frontend and into various GUIs. Lots of technical difficulties, two
chief ones being that 1) it would have had to be a very "wide" API in
order to be sufficient to cover all of GDB functionality, and 2) the
library would have to be able to hand control back to the UI on demand,
difficult when inferior control uses blocking system calls. In practice,
it seems to work well enough to have the GUI be a separate program that
communicates with GDB, whether via command line or MI (machine
interface) syntax, and there is some advantage to the "firewalling"
inherent in a two-program scheme, so there's not much motivation to do a
libgdb anymore.
Stan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-02 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-02 16:45 libgdb Matthew Hall
2007-11-02 16:58 ` libgdb Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-11-02 20:30 ` Stan Shebs [this message]
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2003-07-01 1:20 Frame handling Jafa
2003-07-01 3:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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2003-07-01 5:13 ` Jafa
2003-07-01 12:58 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-07-01 14:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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2003-07-01 17:00 ` Jafa
2003-07-02 7:13 ` libgdb jacques
2003-04-16 19:59 gdb's communication to a process/libgdb? Smita
2003-04-16 22:07 ` libgdb Smita
2003-04-17 1:44 ` libgdb Elena Zannoni
2003-04-17 2:06 ` libgdb Smita
2003-04-17 12:57 ` libgdb Elena Zannoni
2002-11-22 14:26 libgdb a2782
2002-11-22 14:52 ` libgdb Keith Seitz
2002-11-22 15:03 ` libgdb Joel Brobecker
2002-10-23 22:46 libgdb Satya
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