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From: Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com>
To: james osburn <jjosburn@hotmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: tracing ( was Re: what are gdbstubs?)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <424350D3.5080200@codito.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY13-F3603224501BC18982C8A32D8400@phx.gbl>


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.

Another option is to script this up using gdb scripts / 
breakpoints and commands on hitting the breakpoints,  but I 
guess you know that already.


cheers
Ramana



> 
> thanks
> jim
> 
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> 
> 
> 
>> From: Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com>
>> To: james osburn <jjosburn@hotmail.com>
>> CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: what are gdbstubs?
>> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 04:44:56 +0530
>>
>> james osburn wrote:
>>
>>> a m using uclibc on the 386 platform i am more interested
>>> in tracing than setting break points.
>>
>>
>> What do you exactly mean by tracing ? Function calls or get some other 
>> trace information ?
>>
>>
>>> i want a way to remotely
>>> what my program execute but i dont have a large budget
>>> (hence the gnu tools)
>>> any ideas on that?
>>> jim
>>>
>>> <html><DIV></DIV></html>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com>
>>>> To: james osburn <jjosburn@hotmail.com>
>>>> CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com
>>>> Subject: Re: what are gdbstubs?
>>>> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 04:37:19 +0530
>>>>
>>>> Hi ,
>>>>
>>>>> I have been reading the gdb docs and as i interpret them
>>>>> i need to link the gdb stub file with my excecuteable
>>>>> to do remote debugging.  is this correct?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes you do.
>>>>
>>>>> do you have any experience with this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have not used *-stub.c for any debugging in a while now. I must 
>>>> say however that if you were using linux / uClinux on your embedded 
>>>> system , you could choose to use gdbserver instead in which case the 
>>>> linking is not required.
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>> Ramana
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Ramana Radhakrishnan
>>>> GNU Tools
>>>> codito ergo sum (www.codito.com)
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Ramana Radhakrishnan
>> GNU Tools
>> codito ergo sum (www.codito.com)
>>
> 


-- 
Ramana Radhakrishnan
GNU Tools
codito ergo sum (www.codito.com)


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-24 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-24 16:58 what are gdbstubs? james osburn
2005-03-24 17:08 ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2005-03-24 22:55   ` james osburn
2005-03-24 23:08     ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2005-03-24 23:12       ` james osburn
2005-03-24 23:15         ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2005-03-24 23:25           ` tracing ( was Re: what are gdbstubs?) james osburn
2005-03-24 23:44             ` Ramana Radhakrishnan [this message]
2005-03-24 23:47               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-03-24 23:48               ` james osburn
2005-03-24 23:59                 ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2005-03-25  0:09                   ` Ramana Radhakrishnan

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