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Re: [PATCH] plugin patch
- From: Scott Moser <ssmoser at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 08:45:18 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] plugin patch
All,
I sent a patch to add plugin support to GDB under this subject last
week, and hadn't received a response other than the one below.
I'll gladly document the plugin in gdbint.texinfo if needed. IBM
made a copyright assignment agreement previously and I have the required
papers to assign this patch also.
I don't think that beneficial functionality should be kept from gdb
simply because people might use it in unfriendly ways. Anyone
interested in taking gdb functionality could still get the GDB source
and highjack that (which would even be less obvious to detect than
shipping a file and telling the user to "plugin load" it within GDB).
If my patch was submitted incorrectly, there was something else
that I was missing, or anything else I'd need to change/update/add,
please let me know.
Thanks,
Scott
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Scott Moser wrote:
>
> > Below is a patch to add plugin support to GDB. It exports a fairly
> > simple programmable interface for people to extend the functionality of
> > GDB via runtime loaded shared libraries in ways that may not fit with
> > the direction of the main GDB tree (not cross-platform, not stable,
> > niche audience...).
>
> IIRC, the FSF doesn't like to add to GNU software support for dynamically
> loading arbitrary modules (for fear of non-free libraries being used thru
> this).
>
> In any case, if this is approved, please consider documenting it in
> gdbint.texinfo. TIA
>
>
Scott Moser
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
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