From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Shebs To: cagney@cygnus.com Cc: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com, insight@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Proposal: --with-gdb-interpreter=... --interpreter=... Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:53:00 -0000 Message-id: <199908190052.RAA27597@andros.cygnus.com> References: <37BB5209.BD61A49@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-q3/msg00074.html Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:38:33 +1000 From: Andrew Cagney We're now starting to see the situtation where GDB can support multiple interpreters. At present there is GDB's traditional CLI, the TUI (from HP) and TCL/TK. We've had many threads of Python, Perl, Java, Visual Basic and evey guile interpreters comming in down the track. What I'd like to do is set in motion change that should greatly simplify the integration of various interpreters. Accordingly I'd like to propose the following changes: Of course I think this is a great idea! It occurs to me that the situation is very similar to that in GCC, where the language-specific frontends live in subdirs. It's not identical, because each frontend results in a distinct executable (cc1plus, etc), while for GDB we'd rather end up with a single debugger, but the configury and makefile fragment ideas could be useful to learn from. Stan