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Re: inferior calls from python?
> 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