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From: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org,        Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] Add "debug jit" for easier tracing of JIT support internals
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikdCgTR07HvqyLcUwCP4VyFR+eu9okkwgcBJDWO@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hbdlrf46.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:

> Could we go even further, and just specify the name of the parameter and
> then some generic documentation about it?  The set- and show-docs are
> usually pretty useless.
>
> Something like:
>
> add_setshow_zinteger_cmd ("jit", class_maintenance, &jit_debug,
>                          _("JIT debugging"),
>                          _("When non-zero, JIT debugging is enabled."),
>                          &setdebuglist, &showdebuglist);
>
> Then:
>
> (gdb) help show debug jit
> Show the "JIT debugging" setting.
> Usage: show debug jit
> When non-zero, JIT debugging is enabled.

Just to avoid any confusion, "JIT debugging" (as in "GDB will set breakpoint,
read in-memory JITed files, etc.") is (currently) always enabled.

What 'set debug jit 1' turns on is debugging of what "JIT debugging"
is doing internally :-)

-- 
Paul Pluzhnikov


  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-06 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-05 19:36 Paul Pluzhnikov
2011-01-05 20:02 ` Doug Evans
2011-01-05 22:57   ` Pedro Alves
2011-01-05 23:16     ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2011-01-05 23:28       ` Pedro Alves
2011-01-05 23:49         ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2011-01-06  0:45           ` Pedro Alves
2011-01-06  1:09             ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2011-01-06  4:14               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-05 23:26     ` Doug Evans
2011-01-05 23:34       ` Pedro Alves
2011-01-06 19:45         ` Tom Tromey
2011-01-06 19:52           ` Paul Pluzhnikov [this message]
2011-01-05 20:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-05 21:53   ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2011-01-05 22:51     ` Pedro Alves
2011-01-06  4:00     ` Eli Zaretskii

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