Re: What are the prescribed ways to integrate extensions into gdb? Examples?

[jacob navia]

address@hidden wrote:

> I have found the following references about extending gdb:
>
> [1] Section 4.2 of the `GDB Internals' document, `UI-Independent 
> Output--the ui_out Function':
> http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdbint_4.html#SEC19
>
> [2] Section 24 of the `Debugging with GDB' document, `The GDB/MI Interface':
> http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_25.html#SEC223
>
> [3] Section A of the `GDB Internals' document, `GDB Currently available 
> observers':
> http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdbint_19.html#SEC188
>
>
>
> What is the currently prescribed way to integrate extensions into gdb?
> I want to link my code in with gdb.  I am interested in adding to gdb:
> (1) a full scripting language (not tcl) and (2) a new GUI front-end.
> These additions could use the same or different methods of extending gdb.
> I prefer a machine-oriented interface to gdb, not an interface that
> would require me to parse printf output.
>
> Besides the currently prescribed way(s) of extending gdb, is there a
> different method planned for the near future -- a method that is
> semi-supported now?
>
> Are there some good examples of the extension of GDB (not by starting
> GDB as a separate process)?  Is the way Insight extends GDB (1) endorsed
> and (2) the most up-to-date way?  Are there other not-to-ancient
> programs that link into GDB?  Do they extend GDB in an endorsed ways?
> Do they do it in the most up-to-date way?
>
>
>
> Regards and thanks.

Very interesting question, but I think that nobody is reading this
newsgroup.

I posted a bug in gcc and a patch for it without even receiving an
acknowledgment.