From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2331 invoked by alias); 24 Sep 2005 19:06:33 -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 2212 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Sep 2005 19:06:09 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:06:09 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EJFLb-0008Gk-2V; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:06:07 -0400 Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:06:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "Aaron S. Kurland" Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Is multiprocessor debugging multithreaded debugging? Message-ID: <20050924190607.GA31770@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Aaron S. Kurland" , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <689eb34705092323562d00e2f3@mail.gmail.com> <20050924151414.GA26929@nevyn.them.org> <1127582645.22872.3.camel@akurland.bostoncircuits.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1127582645.22872.3.camel@akurland.bostoncircuits.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg00184.txt.bz2 On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 01:24:05PM -0400, Aaron S. Kurland wrote: > On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 11:14 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 12:26:00PM +0530, Anupama Chandwani wrote: > > > Hello, i would like gdb to remote debug a homogeneous multiprocessor > > > chip (with no OS) from my linux box. I want to use only a single > > > session of gdb. How different is it from debugging multi-threaded > > > programs? i.e Can each processor be treated as a thread? However there > > > are different code images on each processor.. > > > > GDB doesn't support debugging multiple code images at one time, only > > single-program-single-data. > > Will it ever? Is this something that is planned? I'd be willing to > dedicate a full time resource to such a project if anyone is interested > in running it. Standard answer: it will if someone is interested in implementing and maintaining it. In this case, that mostly means thinking about the user interface and MI interface issues involved; how to present this to the user and to IDEs. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC