From: Luis Gustavo <luis_gustavo@mentor.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfc target-side break conditions 1/5 v2] Documentation bits
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F467C9B.2080404@mentor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F467963.4040701@redhat.com>
On 02/23/2012 03:37 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 02/22/2012 03:32 PM, Luis Gustavo wrote:
>
>> +* New options
>> +
>> +set breakpoint condition-evaluation
>> +show breakpoint condition-evaluation
>> + Controls whether breakpoint conditions are evaluated by GDB ("gdb") or by
>> + GDBserver ("target").
>> + This option can improve debugger efficiency depending on the speed of the
>> + target.
>> +
>> +* New remote packets
>> +
>> + The z0/z1 breakpoint insertion packets have been extended to carry
>> + a list of conditional expressions over to GDBserver depending on the
>
> suggest s/GDBserver/the remote stub/
>
> (making clear the packet isn't only useful with GDB's own server.)
>
I'd rather make this "the target", as this stuff may be carried over to
the IPA running on the target's side. It also is aligned with the
"target" mode naming.
>> +If a breakpoint is conditional, there are two evaluation modes: ``gdb'' and
>> +``target''. If mode is ``gdb'', breakpoint condition evaluation is done by
>> +@value{GDBN} on the host's side. If it is ``target'', then the condition
>> +is evaluated by the target. The @code{info break} command shows
>> +the condition on the line following the affected breakpoint, together with
>> +its condition evaluation mode in between parentheses.
>
> I'm probably confused by now, but I thought that the modes are now "host" and
> "target". Other than that, no comment. I think the docs changes look great.
>
They are host and target now. This is what happens when the naming
changes a couple times. :-)
Fixed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-23 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-27 20:33 Luis Gustavo
2012-01-28 9:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-22 16:19 ` Luis Gustavo
2012-02-23 17:46 ` Pedro Alves
2012-02-23 17:55 ` Luis Gustavo [this message]
2012-02-23 18:24 ` Pedro Alves
2012-02-24 12:38 ` Luis Gustavo
2012-02-07 21:42 ` Stan Shebs
2012-02-08 23:07 ` Luis Gustavo
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