Devel::GDB::LowLevel - Low-level interface for communicating with GDB
This module is used internally by Devel::GDB. It handles the low-level I/O of communicating with the GDB process.
Spawns a GDB process. Because this class only facilitates communication with GDB (not with the inferior process being debugged), you have to decide what to do with the STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR of that process. There are a few options available:
STDIN
STDOUT
STDERR
If STDIN is a tty, we can have the inferior process communicate directly with the controlling tty (emulating the default behavior of gdb):
$gdb = new Devel::GDB::LowLevel( '-execfile' => $path_to_gdb, '-params' => $extra_gdb_params );
Or, we can create an Expect object to communicate with the inferior process:
Expect
$gdb = new Devel::GDB::LowLevel( '-create-expect' => 1 ); $expect = $gdb->get_expect_obj();
Or, we can create our own tty and use that:
$gdb = new Devel::GDB::LowLevel( '-use-tty' => '/dev/pts/123' );
Sends a raw line of text to GDB. This should not contain any newlines (they will be stripped). This method only sends a request, and does not wait for a response.
Returns the file handle from which to read GDB responses.
Returns the Expect object created in the constructor. Dies if '-create-expect' was not passed to new.
'-create-expect'
new
Send SIGINT to the GDB session, interrupting the inferior process (if any).
IPC::Open2
Antal Novak <afn@cpan.org>, Josef Ezra <jezra@cpan.org>
Copyright (C) 2007 by Antal Novak & Josef Ezra
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
To install Devel::GDB, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Devel::GDB
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Devel::GDB
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.