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Re: Instrcutions that must not be stepped.
>>>>> "PAUL" == PAUL GILLIAM <pgilliam@us.ibm.com> writes:
>> By the way, if stepping these atomic sequences proves to be a
>> performance problem, you might want to consider implementing
>> stepping them in the (Linux) kernel.
PAUL> This would be cool. It would be nice to be able to tell if the
PAUL> kernel has support for this and let it handle atomic sequences
PAUL> if it does. Let GDB handle it if the kernel doesn't.
Similarly, in remote debugging, there should be a way to have the stub
handle it. That means you may need some extensions to the stub
protocol to encode some new information...
paul