A Certifiable Very Cool Trick
David Arnold
arnold at dstc.edu.au
Wed Jun 30 01:46:00 EDT 1999
-->"BAW" == Barry A Warsaw <bwarsaw at cnri.reston.va.us> writes:
BAW> My model was gdb's attach feature where you can attach to, stop
BAW> and trace through a running external C program. I would love
BAW> to be able to do the same thing at the Python level. We
BAW> started talking about remote pdb's with threads listening on
BAW> sockets, etc. (still cool ideas but more work).
on a (vaguely) related note, i was talking to Mark Hammond the other
day (hi Mark) about MS's ActiveDebugging(TM) (sp?) stuff.
as i understood it, each interpreter presents a set of COM APIs which
provide an abstract view of stack frames, etc, suitable for use by a
symbolic script debugger. you can thus debug across scripting
languages using a single tool, watching calls between interpreters,
etc etc.
all very cool, and so i started thinking about doing the same thing
for Unix via gdb (for C) and the Python interpreter (what other
languages are there? oh -- ELisp, yeah -- we can do that!)
of course, attaching to a running process should still be possible,
and thus the round-about relationship to the thread.
ahhhhh. now, where's that spare time again?
d
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