Re: guile scripting for gdb

2013-12-01 Thread Nala Ginrut
hi there! I'm glad that you're interested on Guile's multi-lang feature. Guile has several languages front-end now, but some of them are half-baked. I'm one of the fans of multi-lang, but I think I have to wait for Guile's brand new registerVM, or the work based on current stackVM maybe just wastin

Re: guile scripting for gdb

2013-11-30 Thread msematman
I'm curious, what is the current status of support for other interpreted languages in the Guile VM? For example, what's the status of Python for Guile? As probably many of you , once I've felt the power of lispy languages, it's an annoyance to go back to anything inferior, but many people I work wi

Re: guile scripting for gdb

2013-11-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Doug Evans skribis: > Doug Evans writes: >> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> Doug Evans skribis: On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > As discussed on IRC, one possible issue is eq?-ness of SMOBs: one would > usually expects pointer e

Re: guile scripting for gdb

2013-11-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Doug Evans skribis: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Doug Evans skribis: >> >>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> >> [...] >> As discussed on IRC, one possible issue is eq?-ness of SMOBs: one would usually expects pointer equality t

Re: guile scripting for gdb

2013-11-10 Thread Doug Evans
Doug Evans writes: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Doug Evans skribis: >>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: As discussed on IRC, one possible issue is eq?-ness of SMOBs: one would usually expects pointer equality to be preserved at th

Re: guile scripting for gdb

2013-11-10 Thread Doug Evans
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Doug Evans skribis: > >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > [...] > >>> As discussed on IRC, one possible issue is eq?-ness of SMOBs: one would >>> usually expects pointer equality to be preserved at the Scheme lev

Re: guile scripting for gdb

2013-11-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Doug Evans skribis: > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> As discussed on IRC, one possible issue is eq?-ness of SMOBs: one would >> usually expects pointer equality to be preserved at the Scheme level. > > Yeah. > That'll require gdb maintaining its own table(s) fo

Re: guile scripting for gdb

2013-11-09 Thread Doug Evans
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Doug Evans wrote: >> As discussed on IRC, one possible issue is eq?-ness of SMOBs: one would >> usually expects pointer equality to be preserved at the Scheme level. > > Yeah. > That'll require gdb maintaining its own table(s) for each kind of smob > we want to int

Re: guile scripting for gdb

2013-11-09 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Doug Evans () Sat, 9 Nov 2013 10:40:18 -0800 Would it be ok to punt on eq?-ness until there's a compelling reason to make it work? Does the non-‘eq?’-ness of smobs prevent them from retaining object properties, here? This is the long-standing bug that GNU Serveez is addressing (in the

Re: guile scripting for gdb

2013-11-09 Thread Doug Evans
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello, > > Doug Evans skribis: > >> fyi, I've uploaded my gdb-guile branch to github. >> >> https://github.com/dje42/gdb.git >> >> It's in branch gdb-guile. > > Nice piece of work from several angles (implementation strategy, test > coverag

Re: guile scripting for gdb

2013-11-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Doug Evans skribis: > fyi, I've uploaded my gdb-guile branch to github. > > https://github.com/dje42/gdb.git > > It's in branch gdb-guile. Nice piece of work from several angles (implementation strategy, test coverage, style, docstrings, comments, etc.) > It's still very preliminary, th

guile scripting for gdb

2013-11-04 Thread Doug Evans
Hi. fyi, I've uploaded my gdb-guile branch to github. https://github.com/dje42/gdb.git It's in branch gdb-guile. It's still very preliminary, there's still lots to do, and there are some open issues. If you're interested take a look. We'll have to see how things end up if/after it passes code re

guile scripting for gdb

2013-11-04 Thread Doug Evans
Hi. fyi, I've uploaded my gdb-guile branch to github. https://github.com/dje42/gdb.git It's in branch gdb-guile. It's still very preliminary, and there are some open issues. If you're interested take a look. We'll have to see how things end up if/after it passes code review, so while I welcome a