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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB and the OpenJDK JVM
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>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

Daniel> I wonder if this API could be implemented in Python...

I don't see why not.  Actually, I think it can be even be done without
changing gdb, since gdb doesn't care or know what is behind the API.

If you want it to be 100% Python, you can almost do it with ctypes
callback functions; but it won't quite work since gdb needs a .so and
looks for some symbols there.

Tom