C programs introspection using binutils/gdb

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 11:07:52AM +0200, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> Clearly, gdb sounds like the way to go. Its scripting capabilities are 
> sufficient and I am already able to monitor some nice things with it. 
> The only complain I'd have with it is that its batch mode doesn't 
> prevent it from printing its own messages - obviously the batch mode 
> wasn't designed with the idea that the output of gdb scripts could be
> used as gnuplot input data, for instance.
> 
> I think I'll discuss this with the gdb guys.

You may want to look at a post from Kip Macy, about two months ago, to
gdb@.  He added a Perl interpreter to GDB.  I'm poking at adding Guile
in my spare time, but I haven't got it working quite yet (somewhat
hindered by not remembering much Scheme...)

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer