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, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘planet ltc’
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 »
new GDB release, and decimal floating point
Posted in english, tagged community, decimal floating point, development, gdb, linkedin, linux, open source, planet ltc on Monday, March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
gdb’s backtrace command implemented in python
Posted in english, tagged community, development, gdb, linkedin, linux, open source, planet ltc, python on Monday, March 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
new linker for Linux and others ELF OSes
Posted in english, tagged community, development, linkedin, linux, open source, planet ltc on Saturday, March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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++. [...]
python scripting in gdb!
Posted in english, tagged community, development, gdb, linkedin, linux, open source, planet ltc on Friday, March 14, 2008 | 7 Comments »
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 [...]