[RFC] plugin/extension interface

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 02:12:46PM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
> I'm not so hostile to plug-in interfaces.  It's true that the API
> needs to be designed carefully, but allowing people to maintain other
> features (targets; architectures; commands) separately from GDB would
> take a big load off our backs.

I don't think the benefit for targets or architectures is a
particularly large one.  Folks should expect to have to deal with core
GDB for these, or use the remote protocol boundary.  I do think we will
want plugins eventually, but I haven't thought much about whether real
dlopen'd plugins are worthwhile, or e.g. python.

One classic example of this: domain-specific "shared library" objects
for custom module loaders, like the Linux kernel's or X11's.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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