From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18220 invoked by alias); 24 Jan 2002 17:14:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 18152 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2002 17:14:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.cygnus.com) (24.114.42.213) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Jan 2002 17:14:40 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cygnus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22FE43D8C; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:14:29 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C5040F5.3060308@cygnus.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:14:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020103 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Eli Zaretskii , Michael Snyder , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] New option "trust-readonly-sections" References: <20020124004435.A11710@nevyn.them.org> <20020124113550.A26125@nevyn.them.org> <3C503B92.5040900@cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00725.txt.bz2 > The same goes for things like breakpoints. GDB pulls them so that the target is always left in a clean state. Not pulling them would be a performance bost (knowing the numbers not as much as this one!). Er, that doesn't parse. Michael's trust read only sections patch has a dramatic impact on performance. It eliminates the need to read target memory before writing a breakpoint. Andrew