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From: "Jakob Engblom" <jakob@virtutech.com>
To: "'Dave Korn'" <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>, 	<gdb@sourceware.org>
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Subject: RE: Software-vs-hardware single-step vs. sim/non-sim targets.
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>   I have a GDB port for a custom target, a sim-based simulator, and a gdbstub
> for use on the real thing.  GDB can single step the simulator of course, since
> the support for simulated hardware-single-step is built in, but I'd like to
> save bytes in the gdbstub by not implementing support for the "s" command.

Can't you just use gdb-serial as the level of intermediation?

And hide all implementations behind a common facade, and use a single standard
gdb as the front-end?


/jakob