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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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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 [...]

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news from GDB-land

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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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I have finally found some time to write a bit about the GCC Developer’s Summit 2008, which happened one month ago in Ottawa, Canada (well, I didn’t really find time, since it’s past 1:30 AM now but still…). In summary, I had a blast there! I was in last year’s summit and enjoyed it and [...]

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This year I will be attending the GCC Developers’ Summit again! I was there last year (sorry, trip report is only in Portuguese), had a great time and learned a great deal. This year it should be even more fun and interesting for me, since now I already know some people, have more GDB experience [...]

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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 [...]

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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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GDB version 6.8 was released just a few days ago. I’m happy to have made my small contribution to it, mostly with development of decimal floating point debugging support. From the NEWS file: “GDB now supports debugging C and C++ programs which use the Decimal Floating Point extension. In addition, the PowerPC target now has [...]

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