From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: guile support in gdb Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:27:47 -0600 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 1286494867 14609 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2010 23:41:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 23:41:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 08 01:41:05 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 1P404o-0002oY-7x for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 01:41:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50181 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P404a-0002gT-EQ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:40:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33299 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P3y0K-0004A6-8G for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:28:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P3y0H-0007tZ-Qy for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:27:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:16576) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P3y0H-0007tG-KP for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:27:53 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o97LRpfO004621 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:27:51 -0400 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o97LRove029184; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:27:51 -0400 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o97LRnqu024146; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:27:49 -0400 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id C7E073797CC; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 15:27:48 -0600 (MDT) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:10:57 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.22 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:40:21 -0400 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:11005 Archived-At: >>>>> "Andy" == Andy Wingo writes: Andy> I can't speak for others, but I don't use it. We currently recommend Andy> gdbinit files that define commands that call into libguile directly. Thanks. I will probably remove it, then. Tom> FWIW, I think whatever guile-specific value-printing code there is in Tom> gdb would be better rewritten as some python pretty-printers maintained Tom> and distributed with guile itself. Andy> I was actually hoping to get to extending GDB in guile at some point, Andy> making Guile an acceptable language for GDB extensions. Andy> What do you think? Would you accept a patch? I think it is best for a project to have a single extension language. So, I'm afraid my inclination would be not to accept it. Tom