Re: GDB / GDBserver feature parity

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

Sorry, meant to send this to the gdb@ list...

On 02/10/2012 02:48 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Just a short note that I've been, and will for a while be working on
> local/remote debugging feature parity.
> 
> See <http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/LocalRemoteFeatureParity>.
> 
> " GDBserver supports features native debugging does not support. Native debugging supports
>   features GDBserver does not support.
> 
>   The aim of this project is bridging the gap between both worlds.
> 
>   Neither target backend is a superset of the other currently. A secondary goal of this project
>   is making it possible to share a single target backend between native debugging and
>   GDBserver (on GNU/Linux at first), by making the GDBserver backend support all of GDB's
>   native backend's features (and more).
> "
> 
> I've identified features that either of the local and gdbserver backends support
> that the other doesn't.  Please do feel free to add new points to the
> tables/lists in the wiki above, and, help with the coding, of course.
> Any kind of help is most welcome!
> 
> This is a step towards support for parallel distributed debugging
> (programs that run on multiple machines controlled by a single gdb).
>