From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12765 invoked by alias); 27 Oct 2009 00:12:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 12756 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Oct 2009 00:12:20 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from etinternational-gw.customer.alter.net (HELO etinternational.com) (63.125.108.14) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:12:17 +0000 Received: by etinternational.com (Postfix, from userid 5001) id 6B030F0024; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:12:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pixie (pixie.xmen.eti [192.168.9.76]) by etinternational.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28579F001C for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:12:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pixie (Postfix, from userid 10026) id DFF58A42A2; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:11:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:22:00 -0000 From: "Joshua D. Boyd" To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Extended a new target from target remote Message-ID: <20091027001148.GL1461@pixie> References: <20091026234202.GK1461@pixie> <20091026234505.GA6521@caradoc.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091026234505.GA6521@caradoc.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-10/txt/msg00382.txt.bz2 On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 07:45:05PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 07:42:02PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote: > > Using the normal old GDB remote serial protocol works perfectly, but I'm > > having trouble figuring out what to do on startup. When the user in GDB > > types "target remote server:2345", after the connection is established > > it would be handy to be able to send more information (such as the list > > of nodes that the job is spread over) that had be set using set commands > > before GDB starts trying to set "Hc-1" or reading the general registers. > > Is there any hook to do this, without modifying remote.c? What I don't > > want to have to do is create a new "target cluster" which would end up > > mostly duplicating the code in remote.c. > > Can you use target extended-remote instead of target remote? That > supports some process-level extensions - including connecting to a > "not running" target. Then you can use GDB's normal attach or run > command once you've set up whatever else you need. What version of GDB was that added in? I should have mentioned that I picked up hacking on the internal GDB 6.1, which I realize is extremely old and I should have mentioned that up front, and is a little embarassing.