Threadsafe octave patch

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Nov-2006, John Swensen wrote:

| The attached patch is my first attempt at creating a threadsafe 
| mechanism for my IDE to access octave internals.  Currently the 
| following functionalities are implemented:
| 1) List of variables in scope with name, type, size, etc.
| 2) Ability to request full variables
| 3) Request history information
| 
| Planned functionality:
| Set/clear/step in/step out for breakpoints
| Allow this to be turned on and off
| 
| Please let me know if this is an acceptable solution or if there are 
| changes you would like me to make before it would be accepted.

Wouldn't it be better for the IDE to be able to ask Octave for the
information it needs (anything, not just a selected subset of the
internal state) or call any Octave function?

jwe