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From: Luis Machado via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
To: Matheus Tavares Bernardino <matheus.tavb@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: docs: remote protocol: bc/bs not mentioned in stop-reply list
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 09:50:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4dea740-4eb7-82cf-06e2-26e60220c70d@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGdrTFiu5x-d=wXRp+LrE3R5R3i3umT2qC_UdwCXkOS9HOU=zA@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/29/23 09:08, Matheus Tavares Bernardino wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 9:14 AM Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com> wrote:
>>
>> It seems those two commands actions, bc (backwards continue) and bs (backwards step), were never implemented in gdbserver.
>>
>> I wasn't aware they existed at all. The fact they are not properly documented might mean they aren't actually used that much.
>>
>> Do you have a remote debugging stub that can do reverse continue/step over the RSP?
> 
> This was originally reported at the QEMU mailing list:
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230623035304.279833-1-npiggin@gmail.com/t/#u

I chatted with Alex B. and it seems it's been used in QEMU for a while. So it does seem like a case of
the documentation not being very precise/exhaustive. Should be easy enough to change.

      reply	other threads:[~2023-06-29  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-28 12:06 Matheus Tavares Bernardino via Gdb
2023-06-28 12:14 ` Luis Machado via Gdb
2023-06-29  8:08   ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino via Gdb
2023-06-29  8:50     ` Luis Machado via Gdb [this message]

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