From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.129.124]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4723D3858D28 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2023 08:13:48 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 4723D3858D28 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1688372027; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=72z3eWaSkOg7KWsR0rs41FhlOl6DHTiMWJXnqObJlzE=; b=KZoalfHKWuHTBxpDjdboTRQbCghRl0kZDjDlz0jbCM4c5HQp2m+7M3V/DZIbA2LneQbN8s MHQ8PeB//ikbf3J60EFx/yzEbS5ykj8l4BuAmJGmqpS1zHIZnFJTTJMiDXW4aSWqR4mQeo ILCZdEwj1tQ4MTiFE+sbaIpDF2FFvhM= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mimecast-mx02.redhat.com [66.187.233.88]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-635-Q171E_iyN4qwIzuIYODp4w-1; Mon, 03 Jul 2023 04:13:44 -0400 X-MC-Unique: Q171E_iyN4qwIzuIYODp4w-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.8]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1ACCA803FDF; Mon, 3 Jul 2023 08:13:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oldenburg.str.redhat.com (unknown [10.2.16.9]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5E8F7C00049; Mon, 3 Jul 2023 08:13:43 +0000 (UTC) From: Florian Weimer To: "Aktemur, Tankut Baris via Gdb" Cc: "Aktemur, Tankut Baris" Subject: Re: Using GDB as a Python interpreter References: <87sfa8vwqx.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2023 10:13:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Tankut Baris via Gdb Aktemur's message of "Mon, 3 Jul 2023 07:11:47 +0000") Message-ID: <87jzvh2z0p.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.8 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: * Tankut Baris via Gdb Aktemur: > On Saturday, July 1, 2023 10:53 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: >> I want to run a Python script with GDB, from the shell command line, >> without having to create two files. >>=20 >> I came up with the hack included below, but it's not particularly nice. >> The downside is that the script file name must end in =E2=80=9C.py=E2=80= =9D, which would >> not allow to install the script in /usr/bin for most distributions. I >> don't see a way to override that. > > Based on this comment, I assume you have write access to /usr. > Would you then consider wrapping your script in a Python function > and then installing it in GDB's data directory > (e.g. /usr/share/gdb/python/gdb/function/)? The file would be loaded > automatically by GDB at startup. You can then invoke the Python function > with a single-line GDB command. I was aiming for a one-file solution (and something that could be installed as-is into /usr/bin eventually). Two-file solutions are sort of easy. 8-) Thanks, Florian