Re: Defending GCC considered futile

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:19:58 -0800
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> CC: esr@snark.thyrsus.com, stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, 
>  rms@gnu.org, perry@piermont.com
> 
> > I guess we have very different GDB experiences and/or needs, if this
> > is a significant issue for you.  I almost never need to type complex
> > source-level expressions into a debugger.  The reason is simple:
> > almost every interesting value is already assigned to some variable,
> > so most expressions I type are simple references to variables.
> 
> <optimized out>

-Og

> > If you want to explore a complex data structure, you should use Python
> > or Guile scripting anyway.
> 
> That scripting is still incomplete.   See
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-10/msg00102.html, where I try
> to fix it to some extent. At least IME, sooner or later, when scripting
> GDB, you fall down to issuing textual commands and parsing their textual
> output.

That description doesn't strike me as "the most frustrating part",
rather as a rare and marginal annoyance.