From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 17:12:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA02065 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:12:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA02044 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:12:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id CAA13383 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 02:12:04 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA06614 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 02:12:04 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id CAA00745 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 02:00:36 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601170100.CAA00745@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: kgdb.. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 02:00:35 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601162213.OAA00186@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jan 16, 96 02:13:53 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As David Greenman wrote: > > Yes, I'm a kgdb person, too. The standard gdb doesn't have the powerful > scripting/macro mechanism that kgdb had. For one thing, it lacks the looping > constructs which I found _very_ important. Yup, but this wasn't a question of kgdb, but rather that our version of the 3.6 gdb was a largely hacked one. Well, i loved the looping constructs, too. Gary, any chance to retrofit these extensions into the current gdb? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)