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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
Cc: Marc =?utf-8?Q?Br=C3=BCnink?= <marc@nus.edu.sg>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Tracepoints (and python)
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>>>>> "Hui" == Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> writes:

Hui> I have 3 issues with it:
Hui> 1. Not sure about upstream, but when I use it, it is hard to setup
Hui> tracepoint action with python.  How I handle it is write tracepoint
Hui> and action to a GDB source file and call soure command in python
Hui> script.

Yeah, I think you would be better off writing a new Python API to make
tracepoints directly.

Tom