Re: What's with all the Cisco stuff?

[Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>]

>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <shebs@cygnus.com> writes:

Stan> Alternatively, modules could be made dynamically loadable, and I
Stan> think that is the right long-term direction; everything still
Stan> works the same from the user point of view, and simplifies the
Stan> base debugger.  Indeed, Fernando tangled with this for kod, the
Stan> results indicating that getting dynamic loading right everywhere
Stan> is a nontrivial task.

FWIW, getting this right for most useful host systems is easy: use
`libltdl', which comes with libtool.  I decided not to do this for
kod-cisco.c because I lost interest and time.  If someone wants to
libtoolize kod-cisco.c and add the required code to kod.c (and ltdl to
the build infrastructure) I would be happy to provide pointers and
advice.

It would be nice if different parts of gdb could be dynamically
loaded.  For instance, I'd rather not have support for Modula-2, or
Scheme, or even Java (shock, horror) unless I was debugging an
executable that needed these bits.  (This presumes that the savings
are worth the effort.  I haven't looked to see whether this is so, and
I suspect they are not.)

Tom