From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22448 invoked by alias); 10 Feb 2012 14:50:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 22429 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Feb 2012 14:50:32 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:50:15 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1AEoEQ2005860 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:50:14 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q1AEoD5C001043; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:50:13 -0500 Message-ID: <4F352EA5.9090304@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:50:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves Reply-To: "'gdb@sourceware.org'" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120131 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'gdb@sourceware.org'" CC: GDB Patches Subject: Re: GDB / GDBserver feature parity References: <4F352E27.40603@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4F352E27.40603@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2012-02/txt/msg00198.txt.bz2 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 . > > " 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). >