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Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:55:58 -0200 From: Luis Machado<luis_gustavo@mentor.com>
This patch series adds support and required machinery to enable breakpoint condition evaluation on the stub's side instead of solely in the host's side.
When the evaluation is done on the stub's side, we eliminate all the useless stub -> GDB trap notifications that happen when the condition is false, potentially improving the speed of debugging on slower connections.But the downside is that the stub has more work to do, and therefore can potentially disrupt the timeline of the program being debugged. Is this feature really worth it? How "slow" should a slow connection be before this becomes a win? are there types of programs where this mode should never be used for fear of interfering with the program's timings?
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