[PATCH] plugin patch

Paul A. Clarke pac@us.ibm.com
Wed Nov 6 11:55:00 GMT 2002


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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