bug#30151: Debugger API

[Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>]

James Nguyen <james@jojojames.com> writes:

> Thanks, I've submitted an issue here -> https://github.com/realgud/realgud/issues/206.
>
> Looking at some old code I did when adding breakpoints for lldb, it looks like I just used the marker-filter and matched against strings in the filter looking for 'breakpoint print' strings and extracting the info out after.
>
> That might be similar to how something like flymake/flycheck runs a *something* in a separate process and then matches strings against the output to get the error output out.
>
> E.g. http://ix.io/EsZ (meant just for discussion)
>
> I'm not sure how we can better support this flow (or if it's even a good idea) but from what I've seen the marker-filter is the one place where we can 'extract' information from the underlying debugger (using its output).

Did anything ever come out of your investigations and experiments?  We
sure would welcome contributions and improvements to gud.el.

As it stands however, this is an open issue in our bug tracker, but I
can't really make out what it is concretely about.  Should this issue
perhaps be closed?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas