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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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I’ve been working on Python bindings for exposing GDB’s frame_info, the internal structure it uses to keep track of the frame stack in the debuggee (or inferior, in GDB parlance). I got just enough working to be able to implement an equivalent of GDB’s backtrace command entirely in Python. The difference is that my version [...]

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Cool, Ian Taylor (who wrote the current linker used in Linux) just announced that gold, the new linker that he has been writing, was just released. It targets only ELF systems, so I believe its design is much simplified and streamlined by this. I find it interesting that he chose to implement it in C++. [...]

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It seems the planets are finally aligning to get Python scripting support in GDB! Vladimir published his changes last month, Tromey improved on them, and I joined the bandwagon. The work is being done in a git repo hosted by gitorious. More details here. This looks very promising. Update – 2008/03/15: Sorry, I was a [...]

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