Re: Using gdb as a trace agent

Alexandre Courbot
2004-05-18T08:33:34Z

> 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,