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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Raphael Zulliger <zulliger@indel.ch>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Unneeded displaced single stepping causes issues: Performance drop and range stepping killer
References: <517516D8.6010604@indel.ch>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:54:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <517516D8.6010604@indel.ch> (Raphael Zulliger's message of "Mon,	22 Apr 2013 12:54:16 +0200")
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>>>>> "Raphael" == Raphael Zulliger <zulliger@indel.ch> writes:

Raphael> versus:

Raphael>         (gdb) set displaced-stepping 1
Raphael>         (gdb) si
Raphael>         Sending packet: $m1508,4#9b...Packet received: 3c000058
Raphael>         Sending packet: $m832d4,4#02...Packet received: 7c0802a6
Raphael>         Sending packet: $X1508,0:#bc...Packet received:
Raphael>         binary downloading NOT supported by target
Raphael>         Sending packet: $M1508,4:7c0802a6#b0...Packet received: OK
Raphael>         Sending packet: $g#67...Packet received:
[...]

I guess this is copying the instruction and stepping it?  I wonder if we
could put more information about displaced stepping into the remote
protocol, to avoid the extra traffic.

Tom