On 2010-11-19, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote: > dutche <dut...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My project is to have a python program that loads a C program and >> sets a breakpoint at some address, and then with this breakpoint I >> change the EAX register and then continue the program execution. > You will need to find a Linux application equivalent to PaiMei. Your > question is not "how can I change EAX", your question is "where can I > find a Linux debugger that can be controlled from Python?" > > I don't know the answer to that. gdb is quite powerful, and you can > certainly control it by connecting to its stdin and stdout > connections. If you're going to do that, you want to run gdb in "machine interface" mode, which makes it a lot easier to talk to programatically. I've not done it in Python, but it's easy enough in C, so in Python it ought to be trivial: http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/GDB_002fMI.html#GDB_002fMI If you don't want to write code to talk the gdb/mi "command language", then another option is to use a library like libmigdb: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmigdb/ You can probably call the library functions using cytpes: http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Psychoanalysis?? at I thought this was a nude gmail.com rap session!!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
