From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ovidiu@cup.hp.com To: ovidiu@cup.hp.com Cc: Andrew Cagney , gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com, insight@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Proposal: --with-gdb-interpreter=... --interpreter=... Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:22:00 -0000 Message-id: <199908201721.KAA07605@hercules.cup.hp.com> References: <199908200605.XAA02169@hercules.cup.hp.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-q3/msg00089.html On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:05:13 -0700, ovidiu@cup.hp.com wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:38:33 +1000, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > > [...] > > > > o a new option ``--interpreter=...'' that can be used > > to specify the interpreter to use during startup. > > I propose the flag to be simply called -perl, -python, -tcl, -guile etc. In > addition to this the flag should take an additional argument which should > represent the name of a script in that language. This would allow the user to > write full scripts to work with gdb. I forgot to say it, but this allows one to write things like: #! /bin/gdb -perl # insert your favorite Perl code here to manipulate gdb's internals Greetings, -- Ovidiu Predescu http://andromeda.cup.hp.com/ (inside HP's firewall only) http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/7464/