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Re: Intrusive GDB Symbol Lookup when debugging remotely
Hi Andrew
Thanks very much for responding. This is a great lead. We will take a
look at this option and see how it works today on our system.
Cheers!
Dave
On 01/24/05 13:47, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>Dave Trollope wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>No-one responded to this, but I'm sure someone on this list understands
>>how difficult it would be to implement a new handler for a signal to run
>>gdb in a "Local" mode when connected to a gdbserver. I'd really
>>appreciate an estimate of how much effort this would be, or where in the
>>code to start looking.
>>
>>
>
>In theory, "target async-remote" does what you're looking for - it runs
>the inferior in the background letting you interact with the local
>symbol table.
>
>In reality though, that code hasn't been tested in years ..... We need
>something like native GNU/Linux being made async giving us a mainstream
>async target.
>
>Andrew
>
>
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