David Taylor wrote:
> Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 22:13:07 +0000
> From: JLT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm posting this mail following the advice of B. Kuhn.
> I'm currently working on my own little project (a software testing tool)
> which is using a personnal "libraryzed" version of gdb (symply a full
> archived gdb with a light main subprogram). Indeed, the internal APIs of
> gdb give me the right level access to executable symbols, for a lot of
> binary formats and platforms.
> This organisation of my soft needs modifications of GDB : I think it's
> not a good solution. I'm now thinking about building my own API to
> communicate with GDB by pipes, examining outputs of "maintenance print"
> commands.
> Has anybody ever worked on such API ?
>
> One already exists for gdb; checkout of the files in the gdb/mi directory;
> for documentation, read gdb/mi/gdbmi.texinfo.
>
Thanks for this, but my distribution of gdb 4.18 has no gdb/mi/gdbmi.texinfo
file.
I'm going to look for it the cygnus repository.
>
> I don't know offhand whether this is in gdb 5.0, but it is certainly
> in the CVS repository. Checkout http://sourceware.cygnus.com for
> information on how to access the repository.
>
> The homepage of my project :
> http://perso.club-internet.fr/bigbob/Toaster/toaster.html
>
> Regards,
> Bobsky
