Re: [BPF] Maintenance status and breakpoint/register questions

[Sam James via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>]

Qi Su via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org> writes:

> Hi Jose and gdb folks,
>
> Hope you're doing well. I've been digging into GDB's BPF target and wanted
> to check a few things before I start cleaning up patches.
>
> 1. Maintenance status
> The last commits touching `gdb/bpf` seem over a year old, and I haven’t
> seen much recent activity. Is the port still actively maintained? Also, is
> there any internal code at Oracle—docs, test cases, examples—that could be
> upstreamed or shared?

Ports in gdb don't tend to require particularly high levels of
commits. I'm not saying there isn't stuff to be done, but I don't think
the activity level is alarming (at least to me). 

The only BPF specific file in gdb is gdb/bpf-tdep.c and that's not so
big by design. Is there something more specific you're concerned about?

(I'm not saying there is or isn't some problem with the bpf port, I'm
just curious as I hadn't seen anything as a problem.)

> [...]

sam