From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2841 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2014 12:54:48 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 2831 invoked by uid 89); 5 Feb 2014 12:54:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GARBLED_BODY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 12:54:47 +0000 Received: from svr-orw-exc-10.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.58]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1WB204-0002j9-7u from Yao_Qi@mentor.com ; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 04:54:44 -0800 Received: from SVR-ORW-FEM-04.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.97.41]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-10.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 5 Feb 2014 04:54:44 -0800 Received: from qiyao.dyndns.org (147.34.91.1) by svr-orw-fem-04.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.97.41) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.247.3; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 04:54:43 -0800 Message-ID: <52F2340F.5010909@codesourcery.com> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 12:54:00 -0000 From: Yao Qi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Khouzam CC: "'gdb-patches@sourceware.org'" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Create inferior fro trace file target References: <1391060652-10870-1-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-02/txt/msg00039.txt.bz2 On 01/31/2014 03:21 AM, Marc Khouzam wrote: > When starting the debug session, for a user, it is very similar to ask > to look at a core file than to look at a trace file. So in Eclipse, it is > the same UI except that the user specifies if the file is a trace file > or a core file. > Hmmm, that makes sense to me. >> > These two patches bring an issue for multi-target support, say if GDB opens >> > two trace files in two targets, what is the expected output of "info inferiors" >> > and "info threads"? > If you are asking about Eclipse, we don't support multi-target, so the problem > never presented itself. Maybe this should be part of a bigger discussion about > how trace files should be handled. I meant these patches bring potential problems to multi-target transition. We (GDB folks) will revisit them when we go there. > >> > *** BLURB HERE *** > (Out of curiosity, I've wondered why you have the above line in your patch posts.) > It is part of the cover letter of this patch series, generated by 'git format-patch --cover-letter'. -- Yao (齐尧)