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Subject: Re: gdb support for multi-core
From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
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On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 17:23 -0800, s88 wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> How does the multi-core debugging support for gdb? If I have
> multi-core architecture (maybe 8 ARM core on QEMU or something),
> should I modify the gdb to support this architecture, or just using
> individual gdb for each core?

I think the multi-core conversation has gone only about as far
as "maybe we could treat each core like a thread -- gdb knows
about threads..."