Re: [webkit-dev] gdb archer and tracking live objects

2010-03-15 Thread Holger Freyther
On Monday 15 March 2010 22:11:44 Stephan Assmus wrote: > > It doesn't have to be about "convincing", you may just get useful feedback. Yep, that is why the code was attached to both emails. :) ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org htt

Re: [webkit-dev] gdb archer and tracking live objects

2010-03-15 Thread Stephan Assmus
On 2010-03-15 at 16:26:23 [+0100], Holger Freyther wrote: > On Monday 15 March 2010 15:47:43 you wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Holger Freyther > > wrote: > > > I wonder if I could develop this tool inside a subdirectory > > > WebKitTools/Scripts without the usual review process?

Re: [webkit-dev] gdb archer and tracking live objects

2010-03-15 Thread Holger Freyther
On Monday 15 March 2010 15:47:43 you wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Holger Freyther wrote: > > I wonder if I could develop this tool inside a subdirectory > > WebKitTools/Scripts without the usual review process? > > See my recent mail to webkit-dev about gdb 7 -- there's now a > WebK

Re: [webkit-dev] gdb archer and tracking live objects

2010-03-15 Thread Evan Martin
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Holger Freyther wrote: > I wonder if I could develop this tool inside a subdirectory > WebKitTools/Scripts without the usual review process? See my recent mail to webkit-dev about gdb 7 -- there's now a WebKitTools/gdb directory. I'm not sure what is different a

[webkit-dev] gdb archer and tracking live objects

2010-03-15 Thread Holger Freyther
Hi all, one of the archer branches of gdb allows to turn gdb into a python interpreter and allow scripting. My idea was to use this to track all refcounted objects in WebCore and answer questions like. How many objects are alive? How many objects changed from point a to b? What are the refcoun