Charles Manning wrote:
On Saturday 14 February 2009 06:04:21 Maciej Piechotka wrote:
Is it possible to write a plugin to gdb (i.e. program which may examin
data provided by gdb - possibly from gdb)? Preferably in some sort of
scripting language.
You don't really need a plug in.
gdb has a a very flexible built-in macro language that allows you to write a
lot of very useful scripts that can do all sorts of things.
"flexible"?!
gdb is a great debugger, but to say that the macro system is lacking is to make
a gross understatement.
e.g., http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gdb.general/445:
the following:
define break_foo_bar
break foo
commands
print x
end
break bar
commands
print y
end
end
does not work because, apparently, the first "end" closes both
"commands" and "define" and there is no file loaded at this time, so I
get this error:
.gdbinit:97: Error in sourced command file:
No symbol table is loaded. Use the "file" command.
Is there a way around this problem?
