Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Deepak Tripathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name : libdevel-gdb-perl
Version : 2.0
Upstream Author : Antal Novak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Josef Ezra <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/~jezra/Devel-GDB-2.0/
* License : Perl License
Programming Lang : Perl
Description : The |Devel::GDB| package provides an interface for
communicating with GDB. Internally, it uses the /GDB/MI/ interpreter (see
http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_25.html),
which accurately informs the caller of the program state and, through
the use of tokens, guarantees that the results returned actually
correspond to the request sent. By contrast, GDB's /console/ interpreter
returns all responses on |STDOUT|, and thus there is no way to ensure that a
particular response corresponds to a particular request.
Therefore, it is obviously preferable to use GDB/MI when
programmatically interacting with GDB. This can be done via the
|send_cmd| family of functions (|send_cmd|, |send_cmd_excl|, and
|send_cmd_async|). There are, however, some cases when there is no
GDB/MI command corresponding to a particular console command, or it has
not yet been implemented (for example, |-symbol-type|, corresponding to
the console command |ptype|, is not yet implemented as of GDB 6.6). In
this case, the |get| function provides a workaround by capturing all
output sent to the console stream.
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