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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>,
	 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
	 Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
Subject: Re: [RFA] set/show enable-software-singlestep
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806251514.40869.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080625133457.GA8020@caradoc.them.org>

A Wednesday 25 June 2008 14:34:57, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> I think it should already be auto.  can-use-software-singlestep is
> unintuitive - either do use it, don't use it, or use GDB's best
> judgement.  And if the user selects to use it and it isn't supported,
> that's an error when we next want to singlestep.  WDYT?

Well, not really auto.  If a ARM stub does software singlestepping itself
(say we add it to gdbserver), gdb will still do software
single-stepping (breakpoint dance), wont it?

> I agree with Joel; if we want to have the user knob at all, no gain in
> hiding it.

To be clear, I'm not against the knob, FWIW.

-- 
Pedro Alves


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-25 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-24 18:43 Michael Snyder
2008-06-24 19:15 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-06-24 19:32   ` Michael Snyder
2008-06-25 13:22     ` Joel Brobecker
2008-06-25 13:43       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-06-25 14:15         ` Joel Brobecker
2008-06-25 14:33         ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2008-06-25 15:05           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-06-25 15:38             ` Pedro Alves
     [not found]               ` <1214862215.3601.1525.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2008-07-10  2:46                 ` Michael Snyder
2008-07-10 11:07                   ` Pedro Alves
2008-07-10 22:47                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-07-12  2:31                       ` Michael Snyder
2008-07-12  2:28                     ` Michael Snyder
2008-06-25 14:35       ` Pedro Alves
2008-06-25 14:42         ` Joel Brobecker
2008-06-24 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-24 19:34 ` Luis Machado
2008-06-24 20:22   ` Michael Snyder
2008-06-25  1:40 ` Pedro Alves
2008-06-25  6:15   ` Michael Snyder

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