Re: inferior calls from python?

[Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>]

> Roland> Two possible approaches occur to me for this.  One is to have a python
> Roland> method to make the inferior call as a fine-grained operation.
> 
> This is what we want to do, but we haven't gotten to it yet.

Ok, good.

> You might be able to abuse parse_and_eval somehow already -- but Paul
> said on one of the gdb lists that he's made gdb crash this way.

Paul pointed out abusing parse_and_eval using address literals.
That is a doable kludge for many situations.  But I still think the
eval-with-local-convenience-vars-bound feature has merit in general.


Thanks,
Roland