From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Snyder To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: msnyder@cygnus.com, ezannoni@cygnus.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Tracepoints documentation Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:58:00 -0000 Message-id: <3ABB8083.3337@redhat.com> References: <3ABA52B0.EE934756@cygnus.com> <200103231048.FAA29295@indy.delorie.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00436.html Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:29:52 -0800 > > From: Michael Snyder > > > > "Introspect" is sort of a code name for the tracing functionality of GDB. > > However, you do need a special target "stub" (a gdbserver or something like it) > > that knows how to perform the tracing stuff, since most of the tracing work > > is done on the target side. > > > > We (the old Cygnus) had one customer who implemented their own target-side > > tracing server. We also wrote a sort-of reference implementation ourselves, > > but it has never been released. > > Thanks for the info. > > >From the patches you post from time to time, I understand that > tracepoint.c is actively maintained, which means it is used. Is it > used in conjunction with that single target-side server which supports > tracepoints? Yep, plus every once in a while we do a demo at a trade show.