From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28297 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2012 02:36:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 28173 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Dec 2012 02:36:06 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.nus.edu.sg (HELO imsva05.stf.nus.edu.sg) (137.132.14.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:35:58 +0000 Received: from imsva05.stf.nus.edu.sg (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE88110059 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:34:21 +0800 (SGT) Received: from smtp.nus.edu.sg (unknown [137.132.21.158]) by imsva05.stf.nus.edu.sg (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C5D10056 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:34:21 +0800 (SGT) Received: from r-45-189-28-172.comp.nus.edu.sg ([172.28.189.45]) by smtp.nus.edu.sg over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:35:44 +0800 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Marc_Br=FCnink?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Tracepoints (and python) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:36:00 -0000 Message-Id: <464A745A-AA80-4485-820E-64C4D01A270C@nus.edu.sg> To: gdb@sourceware.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) X-TM-AS-MML: No X-TMASE-Version: IMSVA-8.2.0.1580-6.8.1017-19466.000 X-TMASE-Result: 10--4.551100-5.000000 X-TMASE-MatchedRID: F0DKrPrOvbO7JfBr9Xl5CtjGRkLinPFISNmpTpsmB/d95Y/d46AYri57 hWH2lkqmq61alUC6VkfkwjHXXC/4I7I7zVffJqTzK6YdVIaYLSrZj/0T+cY7AH2e3KxMd1i0TM7 +aOkCid7hXRkg5g94Q8pRAv8cFrwoJCrwkG3+rMThyQoZDVF6xuwqSNOPlvkh 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: 2012-12/txt/msg00062.txt.bz2 I have no idea about gdb internals. I m trying to learn, though. Questions: 1. Is there any technical reason why tracing is only possible on remote tar= gets? Or is is "just" not implemented for anything else. 2. Anyone working on making tracepoints available to the python interface? = Any pitfalls to expect? Marc