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Re: Guile and GDB
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Neil Jerram |
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Re: Guile and GDB |
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Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:34:43 +0100 |
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address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Because one can achieve the same result with simple GDB macros such as
> those attached below (actually Andy put similar macros in the
> repository).
Thanks for explaining, I understand now. Although I still think that
it's a useful extra benefit for the _GDB_ backtrace to show SCM data
nicely, as you showed in your examples at
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-07/msg00231.html.
> One expects much more from a debugger, most notably being
> able to analyze data without running code in the inferior process.
It's all running code of one kind or another; is there really a clear
distinction here?
Regards,
Neil