On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:30:37PM -0800, Alexandre Chartre wrote: > > It's good to know that you already have a full C grammar/compiler using > CTF data. Having a built-in C-like language in mdb/kmdb will be great and > is definitively the goal to reach (I also had this idea but interfacing mdb > with Perl was much easier and quicker). > > I think we can make that goal and the reflexion you are proposing part > of the project, this will help keep track of suggestions and we can study > what benefits are provided by languages mdb will be interfaced with. This > will also help define what would be useful for such a built-in language. > > So the project can be twofold: > > - provide information how scripting languages can be interfaced with > mdb and provide support for some languages. > > - study and possibly implement a built-in language into mdb. > > I propose to change the project description to: > > The purpose of this project is to add support for scripting languages > to the modular debugger (MDB). Support will be added as an interface > to some existing scripting languages and ultimately as a built-in > language into MDB. > > Scripting languages will use the MDB API so that MDB commands and > functions > can be invoked from the scripting language. They will also use CTF type > information so that data structure can be directly accessed from the > scripting language. > > This project will allow to write new MDB commands using scripting > languages > instead of having to write and compile a C module. Thus this will greatly > reduce the time to write new MDB commands. > > This project will initially interface the PERL language with MDB.
+1 from me. - Eric -- Eric Schrock, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock
