How to access files (open/read/close) from gdb script ?

[Jim Ingham]

Since ALL the gdb testsuites are written in Tcl (that's what Expect  
uses, and that is consequently what dejagnu uses) this seems a  
particularly unfortunate place to be airing your prejudices.

Jim

On Sep 26, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:

>> I am not sure to understand correclty:
>> you mean that I can write a tcl script to do that, but how can I then
>> launch the tcl script ?
>>
>
> You can launch any command from GDB using the "shell" command.
>
> Just as a comment regarding TCL, I would personally use anything but
> TCL. It's your choice: You can use bourne scripts, or even write a
> program in C or Ada...
>
> -- 
> Joel
>