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Re: Tracepoints documentation
- To: msnyder at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Tracepoints documentation
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 05:48:46 -0500 (EST)
- CC: ezannoni at cygnus dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:29:52 -0800
> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
>
> "Introspect" is sort of a code name for the tracing functionality of GDB.
> However, you do need a special target "stub" (a gdbserver or something like it)
> that knows how to perform the tracing stuff, since most of the tracing work
> is done on the target side.
>
> We (the old Cygnus) had one customer who implemented their own target-side
> tracing server. We also wrote a sort-of reference implementation ourselves,
> but it has never been released.
Thanks for the info.
>From the patches you post from time to time, I understand that
tracepoint.c is actively maintained, which means it is used. Is it
used in conjunction with that single target-side server which supports
tracepoints?