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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>, Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>,        "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: duplicated code in gdb and gdbserver
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Hi - 

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 06:08:48PM +0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> [...]  I hope you are not suggesting that we actually do remove
> native support and force native support through gdbserver!

Over time, that could make sense on some targets, if it turns out that
using an external helper process improves capabilities (e.g.
multi-target or remote debugging, tracepoints) and doesn't materially
impact performance.

- FChE