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by ajross 3163 days ago
Lost interest right here:

> We're not talking about calling out to a library here. We're talking about actually launching an instance of GDB, passing it commands, and parsing the results it prints out. And this is where we get led down a dangerous path.

That's just wrong. GDB has a reasonably well specified control protocol, which is what everything uses. Yes, it's ASCII and readable. No, it's not just "parsing gdb output".

Come on.