debugger

[Bernd Gehrmann]

Hi,

has anybody (John? :-) ever considered directly linking in
the debugger instead of interfacing with gdb's command
line interface? In some occasions the performance of the
debugger frontend is quite desastrous. This _may_ be
in part because of the whole business of variable to string 
conversions and then parsing them again in the frontend.
However, I have never seen or made any benchmarks that 
confirm this. 

Of course, if the time spent in the conversions is negligible and the
problem is elsewhere, is does not make sense to link with the debugger
as it only complicates maintainance. But AFAIK Insight does this,
so in principle gdb should have a more or less documented interface for
a frontend. And with Qt's new licensing option, there is no reason
to be concerned about gdb's copyright :-)

Bernd.