Re: GDB Console

[Fabien Parent <parent f gmail com>]

Hi William

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:40 AM, William Huizinga <wshuizinga gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been working up a prototype for a GDB console window so far based on
> Gtk::TextView for my own benefit and I thought I would inquire whether there
> were any interest in such a beast from the Nemiver maintainers.

There is already such feature in the work in the "console" branch in
nemiver's git repository.

> Architecturally speaking, my intention is just to pass anything user types
> to GDB via the MI -interpreter-exec command and display anything passed to
> me by the IDebugger console_message_signal.

This kind of architecture has always been refused by the maintainers.
The accepted solution was to provide a small command interpreter that
will use directly Nemiver's exposed API. And as a last recourse
provide a command for direct access to the compiler command
interpreter.

> This would be enough I think to
> satisfy my needs, would it be enough to bother including in the main source
> tree?  I do see that a GDB console has been on the wishlist for a long time
> and doesn't seem to have materialized.  Perhaps I'm missing something and
> this is much trickier than I think it is?

This is a work I started years ago but never took time to "finish"
even thought it was almost ready for submission upstream. I should
probably upstream the work...

> Bill
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