From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13178 invoked by alias); 7 Aug 2002 13:11:31 -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 13170 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2002 13:11:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Aug 2002 13:11:31 -0000 Received: from dsl254-114-118.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.254.114.118] helo=nevyn.them.org ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17cQaz-00050v-00; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 08:11:25 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cQbG-0008FC-00; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 09:11:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 06:11:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Benjamin Tze-Kit Lee , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: using tracepoints function with both host and target on same computer Message-ID: <20020807131141.GA31656@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , Benjamin Tze-Kit Lee , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20020806215201.GA5715@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-08/txt/msg00048.txt.bz2 On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 08:08:54AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > If I have more free time than I expect to (:-) then I would like > > to add this to gdbserver; but that won't be for at least six months. > > IMHO, tracepoints should really become part of GDB itself, even for > native debugging. That would allow us to debug programs where timing is > critical, such as real-time software, Emacs display engine, etc. I miss > that feature a lot. I agree; but my dream is to get back to modularization so that gdbserver will use a small library that GDB also uses to do the actual tracing, and tracepoints can be there. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer