From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12084 invoked by alias); 18 May 2004 08:33:34 -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 12035 invoked from network); 18 May 2004 08:33:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reserv6.univ-lille1.fr) (193.49.225.20) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 18 May 2004 08:33:29 -0000 Received: from malonne.lifl.fr (malonne.lifl.fr [134.206.10.29]) by reserv6.univ-lille1.fr (8.12.11/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id i4I8X6EM024293 ; Tue, 18 May 2004 10:33:06 +0200 Received: from lifl.fr (lancelot.lifl.fr [134.206.10.155]) by malonne.lifl.fr with ESMTP id i4I8X7s10960 ; Tue, 18 May 2004 10:33:07 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <40A9D8A4.3060702@lifl.fr> Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 08:33:00 -0000 From: Alexandre Courbot User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040229) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ramana Radhakrishnan CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Using gdb as a trace agent References: <40A8B71B.8030200@lifl.fr> <40A8ECB7.8000107@lifl.fr> <6654-Mon17May2004202803+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <40A93A90.7070904@lifl.fr> <40A9B50D.60606@codito.com> In-Reply-To: <40A9B50D.60606@codito.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-USTL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-USTL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00115.txt.bz2 > Well we internally have some code which is slightly dated but should not > be too much effort to integrate into the current CVS tree. (The idea was > to make gdbserver multithreaded and have a separate thread running which > would collect the trace data. That was simpler and easier to implement > in a hurry.It should not be too much of a problem to do asynchronous IO > with gdbserver too. ) . So that is the current status with respect to > the thread that you are referring to . Let me check with the code we > have and get back to you. What is the target that you need this for ? > good old x86? At first, yes, and I think your implementation would do the trick. Your code sounds interesting to me, and if you make it available I might use it as a starting point (even though I'm sure it would perform quite well as is). Thanks, Alex. -- Alexandre Courbot - PhD student RD2P/LIFL http://www.lifl.fr/~courbot