duplicated code in gdb and gdbserver

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Mon Jan 10 13:39:00 GMT 2011


Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:

> [...]
> What I'd like to see (repeated here for the list's sake, with
> apologies to the irc crowd :-)), is a publicly usable library (or
> collection of libraries) used by gdb and gdbserver.  [I'd like to see
> more of the gnu tools made available as libraries, btw.]

A differently aimed step toward this could be to remove duplication
between gdb native and gdbserver by gradually *deprecating gdb native
support*.  A library API for the remote protocol would be a natural
non-symbolic/process-control programming interface.

- FChE



More information about the Gdb-patches mailing list