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No, GDB has a pretty good Python extension framework


That's not comparable. That lets you extend GDB with your own additions. Having the debugger work as a library means being able to incorporate the debugger's functionality into other systems.


Yes, this. I write a lot of my own GDB tooling for debugging my kernel.




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