From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20286 invoked by alias); 2 Oct 2003 03:29:13 -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 20272 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2003 03:29:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (65.49.0.121) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Oct 2003 03:29:12 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB67A2B89; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:29:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F7B9B85.50201@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:29:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stan Shebs Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Features vs infrastructure (was Re: Tracepoint support in Cygnus GDB ?) References: <3F717475.33E13BC4@india.hp.com> <6654-Wed24Sep2003201904+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F72FF8C.3080104@redhat.com> <6654-Sat27Sep2003132618+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F75A491.4010203@redhat.com> <1659-Sat27Sep2003204134+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F75D8D3.2090207@redhat.com> <2427-Sun28Sep2003102631+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F76EC92.6010005@redhat.com> <4098-Sun28Sep2003234119+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F775F6C.8070209@redhat.com> <3F784618.50203@redhat.com> <3F7B4BEC.1060800@apple.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00042.txt.bz2 > Heh, I've been trolled! :-) I must say, I've been a little envious > watching GDB development over the past couple of years; Cygnus was never > able to afford so many cycles spent on internals. For multi-arch alone > it took over three years from initial proposal to the actual hacking... Interesting view of history. > I just thumbed through the GDB website and sources, and gdb/TODO seemed > like it was mostly a list of desired infrastructure changes. For instance, > I didn't see a mention of the desirability of tracepoint support for native > debugging, although that is an obvious item for a wishlist. Perhaps the > todo list should be separated into "user-visible" and "infrastructure" > sections, with appropriate xrefs, so that everybody is aware of what's > desired. GDB tracks new features using the bug database. I see one tracepoint change which is me pointing out that an architecture method is broken. Must remember to delete the TODO file. Andrew