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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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