From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19965 invoked by alias); 10 Apr 2003 20:02:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19958 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2003 20:02:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hub.ott.qnx.com) (209.226.137.76) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Apr 2003 20:02:50 -0000 Received: from smtp.ott.qnx.com (smtp.ott.qnx.com [10.0.2.158]) by hub.ott.qnx.com (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA17264; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:02:30 -0400 Received: from catdog ([10.4.2.2]) by smtp.ott.qnx.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA27746; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:02:49 -0400 Message-ID: <035601c2ff9c$2bccd360$0202040a@catdog> From: "Kris Warkentin" To: "Daniel Jacobowitz" Cc: References: <032e01c2ff95$cf069400$0202040a@catdog> <20030410192626.GA18362@nevyn.them.org> <034201c2ff9a$731c5bc0$0202040a@catdog> Subject: Re: gdbserver implementation Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:02:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg00100.txt.bz2 > I've never used gdbserver before. How does its feature set compare to this? > We wanted to see how well gdbserver worked for us and were considering > migrating to get away from the pdebug protocol issues. I should say that one of the reasons for this is that we now have an IDE with it's own remote agent that does a great deal of the fancy stuff so it's not required at the pdebug/gdbserver level. The remote agent sets everything up and then just spawns pdebug to talk to gdb. One of the big pains in our pdebug protocol is the extents that it goes to in ensuring reliable communication. It's a good feature but it's also where things occasionally fall down due to the complexity. If the IDE's agent is ensuring reliable communication, then none of that code is required and gdbserver might be just the thing. cheers, Kris