From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: more on gdb server Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:41:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010718094143.A24443@nevyn.them.org> References: <200107181323.f6IDNtw14885@scv2.apple.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00240.html On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 05:25:08PM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote: > On Tuesday, July 17, 2001, at 11:57 AM, Quality Quorum wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am not sure I am right about it, but it seems quite a neat idea to use > > gdbserver as a primary interface even for a local debugging. It is cheap > > resource wise and will provide for a neat separation of debugger per se > > and (target dependable) target control code. > > I'm not convinced that the overhead is negligible. You're > inserting an additional program and network stack trip in one > of the two known time-critical parts of GDB. I think it should > be *possible* to use gdbserver all the time, but I'd want to see > encouraging performance numbers before advocating that we commit > to using it. (Having gdbserver functional on all native configs > is kind of a prerequisite too. :-) ) I'd be more interested in making it possible to run the testsuite using a native gdbserver; unless someone else does (or is it already possible and just not well-documented?) I'll look in to this. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer