From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
To: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
Cc: "gdb@sources.redhat.com" <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Tracepoint enhancements
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <490F3F3C.4070104@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <geh4km$duh$1@ger.gmane.org>
Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Michael Snyder wrote:
>> One more thing, only vaguely related...
>>
>> I've thought that if we had the ability to attach an expression
>> (in pcode such as we use for tracepoints) to a conditional breakpoint,
>> we could have the conditional evaluation be done on the target
>> rather than by gdb, which would be a big performance win for
>> conditional breakpoints or watchpoints.
>
> Yes. We want conditional tracepoints, and the condition would have to be evaluated
> on the target. And if breakpoints and tracepoints are unified, both breakpoints and
> tracepoints will benefit.
Very good point. OK, you've convinced me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-03 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 20:46 Stan Shebs
[not found] ` <490B6CEF.2000003@vmware.com>
2008-11-01 8:40 ` Vladimir Prus
2008-11-03 18:20 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2008-11-04 21:17 ` Stan Shebs
2008-11-05 7:14 ` Vladimir Prus
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0811060523150.8468@vlab.hofr.at>
2008-11-06 18:19 ` Vladimir Prus
2008-11-03 6:38 ` Jakob Engblom
2008-11-03 18:27 ` Michael Snyder
2008-11-03 18:53 ` Jakob Engblom
2008-11-03 19:23 ` Michael Snyder
2008-11-04 14:00 ` Jakob Engblom
2008-11-04 21:37 ` Stan Shebs
2008-11-04 21:58 ` Michael Snyder
2008-11-05 9:04 ` Jakob Engblom
2008-11-03 9:12 ` Jeremy Bennett
2008-11-04 21:26 ` Stan Shebs
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