Re: Guile and GDB

[Neil Jerram]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Because one can achieve the same result with simple GDB macros such as
> those attached below (actually Andy put similar macros in the
> repository).

Thanks for explaining, I understand now.  Although I still think that
it's a useful extra benefit for the _GDB_ backtrace to show SCM data
nicely, as you showed in your examples at
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-07/msg00231.html.

> One expects much more from a debugger, most notably being
> able to analyze data without running code in the inferior process.
 
It's all running code of one kind or another; is there really a clear
distinction here?

Regards,
        Neil