Re: gdbserver implementation

Kris Warkentin
2003-04-10T20:02:50Z

> 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