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Re: using tracepoints function with both host and target on same computer
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Cc: Benjamin Tze-Kit Lee <btlee at sfu dot ca>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:11:41 -0400
- Subject: Re: using tracepoints function with both host and target on same computer
- References: <20020806215201.GA5715@nevyn.them.org> <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020807080720.16955E-100000@is>
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 08:08:54AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > If I have more free time than I expect to (:-) then I would like
> > to add this to gdbserver; but that won't be for at least six months.
>
> IMHO, tracepoints should really become part of GDB itself, even for
> native debugging. That would allow us to debug programs where timing is
> critical, such as real-time software, Emacs display engine, etc. I miss
> that feature a lot.
I agree; but my dream is to get back to modularization so that
gdbserver will use a small library that GDB also uses to do the actual
tracing, and tracepoints can be there.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer