From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: guile support in gdb Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:10:57 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286482131 22328 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2010 20:08:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 20:08:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 07 22:08:48 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P3wld-0007Nw-VN for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:08:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34059 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P3wld-0006ys-5p for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:08:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59990 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P3wlZ-0006yc-LA for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P3wlY-0002cM-HG for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:34431 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P3wlY-0002Py-EY for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:08:36 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54919DBAEC; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:07:34 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=0isT82ToEN8FnqSQvb/gbHxzOKo=; b=RZlnAW FV0IVFJFwYlNifmRaJtZA2Q2EeLDuZIaGXzSVmE3iJ9BHlnz6E//agUrxoDA5Ghv Wkk96m6zQRCRl+xvw3jDw93HhPkpNBm3l+0PE/cXbvV8cO3lVQ6Nz8rS/+o3pM9O el2Zxn6E1CP3X8I2VBu+/7ImLb813nouipLYQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=fNlOU1NfIfB+O6+kOZq6D0IWnX94+leN rNnNjtKns4JjUtwZTjABkzPrFdeKxIH0uMpWpQrkVVBQYw3T1xDWbFdy4LHWrTfB v3fPkckGBYAvSrrXkdnYrEkYLWXlW6v8Id6K6o9vVfQl4ZBEm3yUKAzi//Z75QEV jo5NkhwEYw0= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E32BDBAEB; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:07:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote.localdomain (unknown [81.38.188.65]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9BA45DBAEA; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:07:31 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Tom Tromey's message of "Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:39:31 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 856DAA7E-D24E-11DF-98AA-030CEE7EF46B-02397024!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:11002 Archived-At: Hi Tom, On Thu 07 Oct 2010 20:39, Tom Tromey writes: > We were recently wondering (buried in a thread on the gdb-patches list) > whether the guile support in gdb actually works. Does anybody use it > regularly? I can't speak for others, but I don't use it. We currently recommend gdbinit files that define commands that call into libguile directly. > FWIW, I think whatever guile-specific value-printing code there is in > gdb would be better rewritten as some python pretty-printers maintained > and distributed with guile itself. I was actually hoping to get to extending GDB in guile at some point, making Guile an acceptable language for GDB extensions. What do you think? Would you accept a patch? Andy -- http://wingolog.org/