Ok, so this time I won’t talk about Python scripting support in GDB. I’m getting tired of it myself. I’ll just comment that it’s amazing the number of problems people in IRC report with GDB that can be solved with the Python support that we’re adding to it. Sometimes they need stuff which is only [...]
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status update on GDB work
Posted in english, tagged community, development, gdb, gsoc, linkedin, linux, open source, planet ltc, python on Sunday, May 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
status update on python scripting support
Posted in english, tagged community, development, gdb, linkedin, linux, open source, planet ltc, python on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a while since I last talked about Python scripting support in GDB. Mostly because I’ve been focusing on getting stuff from the branch merged into CVS HEAD, so that GDB 7.0 can have some useful Python bindings. The latest two patches committed upstream are for creating convenience functions in Python, and fo manipulating [...]
news from GDB-land
Posted in english, tagged community, development, gdb, linkedin, linux, open source, planet ltc, wee hours on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Nick Clifton publishes in his blog monthly news from the toolchain world, which is very interesting and very nice of him. Unfortunately he has not been able to provide news from GDB-land. I compiled a list of interesting events which happened in the GDB community this February to post as a comment in his blog, [...]
a useful python script for GDB: is the variable in scope?
Posted in english, tagged community, development, gdb, linkedin, linux, open source, planet ltc, python on Saturday, November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One annoying aspect of scripting GDB (using it’s own scripting language), is that if you test or set a variable which is not in scope, the script will generate an error and GDB will give up evaluating it. It would be useful to have a way to programatically check if the variable is in scope [...]
python scripting in gdb update
Posted in english, tagged community, development, gdb, linkedin, linux, open source, planet ltc, python on Thursday, October 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It’s been a great while since I last posted about Python scripting in GDB, mostly because I’ve been busy coding the feature and getting it ready for upstream. First of all, I’d like to take the opportunity to encourage people interested in using this feature to experiment with what we have implemented so far. The [...]
great find at bookstore
Posted in english, tagged book, development, haha only serious, nerd on Sunday, August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was having a look at the computing books section of a local bookstore (Livraria Cultura) and had a big suprise when I found these gems sitting at the shelf: I had no option but to buy them, of course! I’ve known about these books for a long time, and I am very excited to [...]
some GDB and ltrace improvements
Posted in english, tagged community, development, gdb, linkedin, linux, ltrace, open source, planet ltc, powerpc on Saturday, May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I thought I’d provide some updates on a few things my team has been doing on debugging tools. Just today Carlos Seo committed a patch to GDB adding support for writing AltiVec (PowerPC’s SIMD instructions) registers to corefiles when using the gcore (or generate-core-file) command. This support will show up, then, in the next GDB [...]
new sticker
Posted in english, tagged development, nerd on Saturday, May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I need a sticker for my laptop. It should read: free as in malloc. Googling for the sentence reveals only two insipid results, so I don’t see much hope of getting it soon…
posting patches using Evolution
Posted in english, tagged development, evolution, hint, linkedin, linux, open source, patch, planet ltc on Saturday, May 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Despite being a KDE person, I use Evolution as my mail client, including for reading mailing lists and posting patches. Up until now I’ve been doing the latter by attaching patches instead of including them in the message body, to avoid whitespace mangling and linewrap. But this method is inconvenient sometimes: when you want to [...]
breaking code into reviewable patches
Posted in english, tagged development, gdb, git, hint, linkedin, linux, open source, planet ltc, python, scm, version control on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
As I mentioned before, I’ve been working on and off on adding Python scripting support to GDB, with Tom Tromey and Vladimir Prus. We did the work in a git repository, separate from the GDB main repo (which still uses CVS, by the way). Now came the time to get the work we did there, [...]
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