Re: tracing ( was Re: what are gdbstubs?)

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 05:14:19AM +0530, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >sorry i should have been more specific.
> >a long long time ago (late 80s) borland
> >turbo c had a trace mode. it would start
> >a program and then just step line by
> >line through the code automatically.
> >you could control the speed and you
> >had the ability to see the registers and local
> >variables that where affected.  again
> >the nice feature was that once this trace
> >feature was started it needed little user
> >interaction. i am looking
> >for some feature similar to that.
> 
> Ok, you are looking for tracepoints in gdb . Its a similar 
> feature but not totally the same .One needs to specify the 
> tracepoints and the data to be collected.  They are not 
> supported with gdbserver AFAIK (of 6.3 vintage) . There have 
> been some recent patches by Nathan Sidwell on tracepoints , 
> though I have not had the chance to look at what changes 
> were being done.

No - this isn't at all like tracepoints.  You could implement this
using a decent frontend and MI, but it would be some work.

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