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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: "gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>,
	  teawater <teawater@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Some ideas of displaced step function
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E6644F.80604@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810031453.16952.pedro@codesourcery.com>

Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Friday 03 October 2008 01:31:54, Michael Snyder wrote:
> 
>> Why are we using displaced-stepping when we're not async?
> 
> s/async/non-stop mode/g.  All-stop + async doesn't need
> it either.  This feature was added for non-stop, as a way to
> avoid lifting breakpoints from the inferior when stepping over
> a breakpoint, otherwise, other running threads could miss them.
> 
> No other reason to have it always on other than for more
> exposure, I guess.  Time to pull the plug?
> 
> I'd still like to have a way to enable displaced-stepping
> in all-stop mode, as it's very useful for testing.

I certainly don't mind 'enable', but maybe it doesn't
need to always be enabled by default?


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-03 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-02 22:05 teawater
2008-10-03  0:33 ` Michael Snyder
2008-10-03 13:53   ` Pedro Alves
2008-10-03 18:30     ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2008-10-03 20:57       ` Pedro Alves

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