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

[Jim Ingham]

The gdb testsuites are an example of how to do this.  They use  
"expect" to drive gdb and parse it's output.  There are also a lot of  
Tcl helper libraries in the testsuite/lib directory that manage  
stepping, etc.  So one pretty easy option is to use the dejagnu harness.

In any case, you can run the gdb testsuite (using "make check") to  
get an example of how to use Tcl & Expect to script gdb.

Also, if you can get the Insight debugger, that has a Tcl Interpreter  
build into gdb, and you can write scripts and just "source" them in  
Insight.  At that point, you can do anything you could do in plain  
Tcl...

I think DanielJ also has mentioned working on scripting bindings  
using the MI in the past, but I don't know the state of this.  That  
is a little bit more work, but would allow you to run gdb under  
another scripting language if you wanted.

Jim


On Sep 26, 2005, at 8:53 AM, David Lamy-Charrier wrote:

>> Maybe you can integrate this with an expect / tcl script  ? AFAIK gdb
>> scripting
>> does not allow such stuff.
>>
>
> 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 ?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>