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From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>,
	Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>,
		gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] btrace: change record instruction-history /m
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 17:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPb22S36oWzWagvHLHvc4aEnQCG1ddV5f1TbK6ddLY-DEHt2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bneanfvb.fsf@gnu.org>

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, dje@google.com
>> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:37:52 +0200
>>
>> Change record instruction-history /m to use its own simple source interleaving
>> algorithm.  The most important part is that instructions are printed in
>> the order in which they were executed.
>
> What does "order in which they were executed" mean with today's
> multi-core and multi-execution unit CPUs?
>
> Thanks.

"multi-core" doesn't enter into the picture here.
The context is a single thread of control.
And "multi-execution unit" doesn't either because
that's just an underlying implementation detail
of the CPU - the program must behave "as if"
each instruction is executed serially
(or as otherwise defined by the ISA).


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-14 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-14 11:37 Markus Metzger
2015-08-14 13:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-14 17:06   ` Doug Evans [this message]
2015-08-14 20:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-17  7:16       ` Metzger, Markus T
2015-08-17 15:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-18  6:30           ` Metzger, Markus T
2015-08-18 14:22             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-14 17:02 ` Doug Evans
2015-08-14 17:44   ` Doug Evans
2015-08-17  7:23   ` Metzger, Markus T
2015-08-18 14:57 ` Pedro Alves
2015-08-19 14:45   ` Marc Khouzam

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