From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Defending GCC considered futile Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:58:58 +0200 Message-ID: <834mqt92rh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150207202952.1042BC00A6@snark.thyrsus.com> <87wq3rocqb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150209172445.290dc20e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <83mw4m8mi8.fsf@gnu.org> <54D9C18B.7060302@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423583985 24186 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2015 15:59:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:59:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Helmut Eller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 10 16:59:34 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YLDDp-0002XV-Vn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:59:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40439 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLDDp-0003gO-Hi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:59:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57766) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLDDZ-0003cj-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:59:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLDDS-0003fq-VV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:59:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:57450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLDDS-0003fN-OZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:59:10 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NJK00G00CAFSL00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:59:09 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NJK00GQ8CELRQ10@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:59:09 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:182814 Archived-At: > From: Helmut Eller > CC: Daniel Colascione , Eli Zaretskii > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:47:21 +0100 > > Recent GDB versions (can) use a GCC plugin to parse source-code; > https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=include/gcc-c-fe.def;hb=HEAD This is used for a different feature: to be able to inject code into a program being debugged. See gdb/compile/ in the GDB repository (and the corresponding docs in the manual, gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo). And I don't think this is implemented as a GCC plugin. AFAIU, GDB dynamically loads libcc1.so to invoke the compiler functions. > I think completion is still done by GDB itself. That's correct, GDB completes on symbols using its own code. File-name completion uses Readline functions.