Re: tracepoints

Eli Zaretskii
2001-03-21T15:59:00Z

> From: Nicolas.Thery@Symbian.com
> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:24:12 +0000
>
> I've never used tracepoints on GDB and I suspect they are not the same as
> the dbx/trace feature you refer to. But FWIW here is a pointer to some
> documentation:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/talks/esc-west-1999/

Thanks a lot for this pointer!

To get tracepoints documented was on my TODO for a long time.
Unfortunately, I don't know anything about tracepoints, and the code
doesn't have enough helpful comments to allow even minimal docs to be
written.

I'm willing to convert these HTML documents into Texinfo, but I have
two issues with this:

- Is the stuff in the above documents still valid, or were
significant changes introduced into tracepoints since then?

- The main document pointed to by the above URL clearly says it's a
proprietary documentation that cannot be changed or even
reproduced without an express _written_ consent of Cygnus. This
is a far cry from the GFDL, and it seems to prohibit any work done
by anyone to produce a chapter for the GDB manual using this
stuff.

Michael Snyder and/or Jim Blandy, could you please help resolve these
two issues?