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Re: [PATCH v5] Events when inferior is modified
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Nick Bull <nicholaspbull at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 18:05:08 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] Events when inferior is modified
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 15:40:19 +0100
> From: Nick Bull <nicholaspbull@gmail.com>
>
> This patch was originally submitted a few months ago; at that time it
> was looked at by Phil Muldoon and others, and there were no outstanding
> comments. I've updated it to take account of mainline changes, but
> otherwise it is unchanged.
>
> "This patch adds new observers, and corresponding Python events, for
> various actions on an inferior: calling a function (by hand),
> modifying registers or modifying memory.
>
> A use case for these events is that by flagging these occurrences, it
> can be noticed that the execution of the program is potentially
> 'dirty'. (Hence why the notification doesn't carry information about
> what was modified; for my purposes it's enough to know that /a/
> change has happened.)"
OK for the documentation part. Thanks.