From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [WIP] TI msp430 CIO support
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 06:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130517063603.GF4017@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130516212358.23f3bcdb@mesquite.lan>
> It may be that this is considered to be (barely) acceptable behavior
> for dprintf. Even if this is acceptable for dprintf, it is completely
> unacceptable for the CIO implementation. It makes no sense whatsoever
> to turn a "next" into a "continue" when attempting to step over a
> statement which performs I/O.
Agreed. Having dprintf with limitations is probably better than
no dprintf at all, but that is a very very serious limitation, IMO.
> In order for this work to go into the GDB sources, the use of the
> shared library machinery needs to be removed and replaced with some
> other kind of breakpoint machinery which still provides correct
> behavior. This same mechanism could be used to improve dprintf
> behavior as well.
Agreed again. I think this option has been delayed and delayed because
it might be hairy to implement right (messing with handle_inferior_event).
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-17 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-17 4:24 Kevin Buettner
2013-05-17 6:36 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2013-05-17 8:43 ` Yao Qi
2013-05-17 21:44 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-05-17 23:10 ` Kevin Buettner
2013-05-20 14:39 ` Tom Tromey
2013-05-21 16:00 ` Kevin Buettner
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