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From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
		Kevin Pouget <kevin.pouget@gmail.com>,
	Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: ping: Re: [patch] Forbid "run" etc. for use_gdb_stub targets
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPb22Rs8ePpXQ1Y-Ne6QqmrunYEDf0BxkriGpCi=xe1PmOyHQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111204012935.GA4034@host2.jankratochvil.net>

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Jan Kratochvil
<jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:02:06 +0100, Doug Evans wrote:
>> I'd like to get away from conflating anything related to gdb stubs and
>> valgrind / gdbserver.
>
> Currently $use_gdb_stub means the startup has been already executed when the
> testsuite gets into GDB control.
>
> IIUC in reality currently the real stubs are not in use but gdbserver in
> non-extended mode behaves as native GDB with the stubs in the past.

Not precisely.

> Maybe $use_gdb_stub name is not fortunate for what it does, real stubs are
> only subset of $use_gdb_stub cases.

Poorly chosen names lead to confusion, bugs, and wasted time.
[No claim is made that this is news. :-)]

Plus, there's no reason why, for example, gdb_start_cmd can't work
with target remote and gdbserver.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-04  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-21  9:19 [PATCH] PR/12691 Add the inferior to Python exited event Kevin Pouget
2011-04-21 10:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 18:19 ` Tom Tromey
2011-04-26  8:24   ` Kevin Pouget
2011-08-31 14:34     ` Kevin Pouget
2011-08-31 14:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-31 14:58         ` Kevin Pouget
2011-08-31 17:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-31 17:53             ` Tom Tromey
2011-08-31 17:59               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-01  9:18                 ` Kevin Pouget
2011-09-01  8:45                   ` Kevin Pouget
2011-09-01 10:12                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-01 11:29                     ` Kevin Pouget
2011-09-15 12:49                       ` Kevin Pouget
2011-09-15 13:58                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-15 14:19                         ` Paul_Koning
2011-09-15 15:27                           ` Kevin Pouget
2011-09-15 15:42                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-31 15:50       ` Tom Tromey
2011-09-19 10:37         ` Kevin Pouget
2011-09-19 10:41           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-03 16:38           ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-04  8:05             ` Kevin Pouget
2011-10-05 12:15               ` Regression (or a new FAIL?): gdb.python/py-events.exp [Re: [PATCH] PR/12691 Add the inferior to Python exited event] Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-05 12:37                 ` Kevin Pouget
2011-10-05 14:16                   ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-05 14:56                     ` Kevin Pouget
2011-10-09 18:17                       ` [patch] gdb.python/py-events.exp: Disable multi-inferior for gdbserver [Re: Regression (or a new FAIL?): gdb.python/py-events.exp] Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-26 15:07                         ` Pedro Alves
2011-10-27 10:31                           ` [patch] Forbid "run" etc. for use_gdb_stub targets [Re: [patch] gdb.python/py-events.exp: Disable multi-inferior for gdbserver] Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-27 18:26                             ` Pedro Alves
2011-10-28 17:40                               ` [commit test fixes] " Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-28 17:42                               ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-28 18:32                                 ` Pedro Alves
2011-10-29 19:55                                   ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-12-03 18:37                                     ` ping: Re: [patch] Forbid "run" etc. for use_gdb_stub targets Jan Kratochvil
2011-12-03 19:15                                       ` Pedro Alves
2011-12-03 20:22                                         ` [commit] " Jan Kratochvil
2011-12-04  1:02                                       ` ping: " Doug Evans
2011-12-04  1:30                                         ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-12-04  2:55                                           ` Doug Evans [this message]
2011-12-05 20:25                                             ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-12-05 21:44                                               ` Doug Evans
2011-12-05 23:36                                                 ` Doug Evans

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