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Re: [PATCH] plugin patch

From: "Paul A. Clarke" <pac at us dot ibm dot com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>
Cc: "Howell, David P" <david dot p dot howell at intel dot com>, Scott Moser <ssmoser at us dot ibm dot com>, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: 06 Nov 2002 13:53:01 -0600
Subject: Re: [PATCH] plugin patch
References: <331AD7BED1579543AD146F5A1A44D5251279DE@fmsmsx403.fm.intel.com> <3DC969B5.6030003@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 13:12, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > Instead of having to add this to the standard gdb as a one-off for NGPT,
> > I can use the standard gdb and design them as plug-ins to be loaded only
> > when debugging NGPT applications. This feels a lot cleaner and could be 
> > applied for other gdb features/architectures to keep the core as small 
> > and efficient as possible, loading additional support/features on demand
> > only when needed.
> 
> That is the theory already.  Reality differs though, there is always 
> more work to do :-(.  That work is, however, independant of a plug-in 
> module.

Andrew,

Can you clarify what you mean here?  You seem to be implying that there
are plans to support on demand (dynamic) loading of features, which
sounds a lot like plug-ins.

Regards,
Paul Clarke

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