[MacRuby-devel] Debug Shell from GDB

[Laurent Sansonetti]

This could potentially be possible, if the objc code runs in the GC  
environment. You could load MacRuby.framework from GDB (using  
NSBundle), then initialize the runtime ([MacRuby sharedRuntime]) then  
start an IRB session, by evaluating the right expression (- 
[evaluateString:]).

Otherwise if the objc app does not run under GC I don't think there is  
an easy way to support this feature.

Laurent

On Nov 9, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Daniel A Carleton wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> Not sure about the feasibility of this, but wouldn't it be great to
> break out into an embedded macirb session from inside GDB?  Exploring
> the state of a running application this way could really help with
> debugging objc code.
>
> If anyone has insights on how this could be accomplished I'd be
> interested to hear them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Daniel
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