From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Guile and GDB Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:34:43 +0100 Message-ID: <87vdmi3tqk.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> References: <8663ek2ayd.fsf@gnu.org> <87tz23udh3.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> <86bpobzb3x.fsf@gnu.org> <87vdmik7e5.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> <87y6resl3p.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246095334 26545 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2009 09:35:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:35:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 27 11:35:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MKUJi-00040f-Ux for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:35:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42139 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MKUJi-0003mu-4W for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:35:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MKUJC-0003Rt-AI for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:34:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MKUJ7-0003Oc-0F for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:34:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58329 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MKUJ6-0003OH-Jt for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:34:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:47544) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MKUJ2-0006BR-Sq; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:34:45 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-152-99-133.range86-152.btcentralplus.com [86.152.99.133]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073CD1F7A0A; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:34:44 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from arudy.ossau.uklinux.net (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7281838021; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:34:43 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <87y6resl3p.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22's?= message of "Sat\, 27 Jun 2009 00\:09\:46 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8782 Archived-At: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=E8s) writes: > Because one can achieve the same result with simple GDB macros such as > those attached below (actually Andy put similar macros in the > repository). Thanks for explaining, I understand now. Although I still think that it's a useful extra benefit for the _GDB_ backtrace to show SCM data nicely, as you showed in your examples at http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-07/msg00231.html. > One expects much more from a debugger, most notably being > able to analyze data without running code in the inferior process. =20 It's all running code of one kind or another; is there really a clear distinction here? Regards, Neil