Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> skribis:

>> From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)

[...]

>> There’s a gdbinit file in Guile that you can load to get a few helper
>> functions.
>
> At first I wanted to say I was blind not seeing it, but then I
> realized that this file is not in the tarball, only in the
> repository.  So I never found it before.
>
> May I suggest to make it part of the release tarball?

Will do.

> Also, as none of the commands defined on gdbinit are documented in any
> shape or form, could you perhaps say a few words about the purpose and
> the intended usage of each one of them?

Keep in mind

> E.g., when to use 'pp' and when to use 'gdisplay' or 'gwrite' or
> 'sputs'?

It’s like the Scheme procedures pretty-print, display, write, and
scm_puts.

> And what are 'pslot' and 'gslot' good for?

Ah ah, good question.  I guess they print/access a struct slot.

Thanks,
Ludo’.