Breakpoint commands compiler

Hi,

    gdb is sometimes used for changing the runtime behavior of a program.
That is, suppose there is a program that has a bug,
it is spotted with gdb, then I create a set of non-stopping breakpoints that
"fix" the runtime behavior by altering memory and registers.
It does work, but it's slow.

I was thinking to start a project to add a "breakpoint commands compiler"
to gdb, which basically generates C code from the breakpoint commands
(one function per breakpoint),
which in turns calls a C API (similar to the python api), invokes the compiler
(user-specified), loads it as a shared object, and finally replaces the commands
of the breakpoints by calls to the compiled breakpoint-functions.

Any comment/suggestion? Would this be accepted within gdb?

Thanks,

    Daniel.

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Daniel F. Gutson
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