RE: [RFC] Removing in process agent (IPA)

["Terekhov, Mikhail via Gdb" <gdb@sourceware.org>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
>
> Similarly, I also think it might be time to consider dropping the tracepoints
> (mainly static and fast) machinery from gdbserver, as I suspect that is another
> mechanism that is not being used very often.
>
We use tracepoints in our stub from the last millennia I guess (back from EMC days)
and plan to do so in the future.

> I recall trying to use tracepoints for practical purposes (back in the day), and it
> wasn't up to the task, being too cumbersome to use, having bad failure modes

Putting some UI/GUI on top of it makes it relatively simple to use.

> and having other security implications when trying to debug stuff in
> production platforms. The remote protocol side of it is OK, but again, I bet no
> debugging stubs are using that anymore.

We do use them but not in production though.

Regards,
Mikhail

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