From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4066 invoked by alias); 19 Dec 2012 12:13:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 4056 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Dec 2012 12:13:18 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl) (83.163.83.176) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:13:16 +0000 Received: from glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id qBJCD5oC015968; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:13:06 +0100 (CET) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.5/8.14.3/Submit) id qBJCD3cV016182; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:13:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:13:00 -0000 Message-Id: <201212191213.qBJCD3cV016182@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: markus.t.metzger@intel.com CC: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, palves@redhat.com, tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, markus.t.metzger@gmail.com In-reply-to: (markus.t.metzger@intel.com) Subject: Re: [patch v6 00/12] branch tracing support for Atom References: <1355760101-26237-1-git-send-email-markus.t.metzger@intel.com> <20121218091953.GF8054@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20121218135437.GA16636@host2.jankratochvil.net> Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-12/txt/msg00696.txt.bz2 FWIW, I think btrace functionality would be useful even without full record support. Some form of branch tracing is available on a lot of RISCy processors. And I can see people wanting to add support for it without implementing the full record machinery (which is a lot of work).