Library interface to GDB

[Martin Baulig <martin@home-of-linux.org>]

Hello guys,

I want to write a library interface to GDB and I'd like to ask you some
questions and also get some feedback first.

The gdb source code (4.18) contains a file gdb/doc/libgdb.texi which has
been last modified in November 1993. This libgdb ist last mentioned in the
ChangeLogs in 1994/95. In the internals manual I finally found a note that
this "project" was aborted. On the other hand, I still find some references
to it at least the Makefile.in, but I remember having seen something about
it in the code itself.

What is the current status for libgdb, is it still supported or already
removed or whatever ... ?

Basically I want to write a GNOME frontend for gdb, but not just
"yet another gdb frontend", but *the* gdb frontend. Ideally it should
export all its functionallity through CORBA so you can also use it in
other projects like GNU Emacs, KDE or whatever.

For me, gdb ist part of the GNU project and I think it is important to
have some kind of "standard" library (or ideally CORBA, but that can also
be handled by the GNOME part) interface for it. Such an interface should
not be specific to any special window system but be usable in any graphical
gdb frontend.

It's no problem for me to actually write the code, but I'd like to get some
feedback first - and I'm open to any suggestions ...

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Martin Baulig - martin@home-of-linux.org - http://www.home-of-linux.org