Re: [PATCH] Add GDB support

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> I’ve polished my potluck dish for inclusion into Guile proper.
>
> So the first patch below adds (system base type), which does type tag
> decoding in a backend-independent manner.  The guts of it is
> ‘scm->object’, which takes an SCM bit pattern and returns the
> corresponding Scheme object (so it essentially duplicates the object
> when using the FFI back-end, and “transports” it into GDB when using the
> GDB back-end.)  There’s a test suite.
>
> The second patch adds the GDB-specific part, and installs it in the
> place where GDB expects it so that the pretty-printer is installed out
> of the box.

I pushed to ‘stable-2.0’ an improved version of these patches with
better handling of cyclic data structures and better doc.

Report any problems!

Ludo’.