20:22 <mouseghost> hi. i need to interface with openocd to, for example, perform some automated breakpoint setting etc., should i use the tcl interface at the port 6666 or just straight up make openocd execute my tcl script in the built-in interpreter?

20:23 <mouseghost> I also wonder if openocd 0x1A as a "command end" character can be somehow automated into regular Tcl...

20:23 <PaulFertser> mouseghost: hm, depends on whether you need some operations that you're not comfortable doing in Tcl the second way.

20:24 <PaulFertser> mouseghost: please clarify the second question, what regular Tcl and why it needs that character?

20:24 <mouseghost> i suppose if i did the "direct to jimtcl script" then i still would need to shuffle the scripts around, generate them or something... that seems suboptimal eh

20:26 <PaulFertser> I'm not sure why you would need to generate, again, depends on how you want to decide what breakpoints to set etc.

20:26 <mouseghost> PaulFertser, theres Tcl RPC Server in OpenOCD (https://openocd.org/doc-release/html/Tcl-Scripting-API.html) and uhhh it needs 0x1A to terminate the string passed to jim-tcl

20:26 <PaulFertser> mouseghost: yep, sure

20:26 <PaulFertser> It's like pressing Enter in Telnet.

20:26 <mouseghost> yeah okay

20:27 <mouseghost> but i wonder if 0x1a was chosen, because, for example, tcl (normal tcl from https://www.tcl-lang.org/) has some rpc facility that uses 0x1a?

20:27 <mouseghost> im not sure if i can explain my question better hm

20:28 <PaulFertser> mouseghost: it's just SUB/EOF symbol from ASCII, so it's not part of what can be normally in Tcl source line.

20:28 <PaulFertser> I do not think it's anything special beyond that.

20:28 <mouseghost> aight

20:28 <mouseghost> thanks

20:29 <PaulFertser> mouseghost: the interface should be easy to use with any language of your choice

20:30 <mouseghost> initially i wanted to use tcl (because tcl is cool) to comm with openocd's jimtcl :P

20:30 <PaulFertser> That's fine too, shouldn't be problematic.

20:41 <mouseghost> meh ill probably go with python, since i need something portable that most people can use z___z

20:47 <PaulFertser> jimtcl should be available on a system running OpenOCD