From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Check original contents at tracepoints
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 19:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37hmpgmpi.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BD24BC1.4030103@codesourcery.com> (Stan Shebs's message of "Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:39:13 -0700")
>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com> writes:
Stan> So the idea of this patch is to record, at definition time, the
Stan> bytes that the tracepoint expects to overwrite when it is
Stan> downloaded for the trace run. The agent then compares with what
Stan> is currently at that address, and refuses to start the run if
Stan> there is any discrepancy.
This seems like a reasonable sanity check to me.
Stan> Assuming the whole idea has merit, one of the open issues has been to
Stan> decide how many bytes to record.
I don't have much to add on this front, sorry.
Tom
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-27 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-24 1:39 Stan Shebs
2010-04-24 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-27 19:45 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
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