From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18009 invoked by alias); 1 Apr 2009 19:20:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 17789 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Apr 2009 19:20:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx2.redhat.com (HELO mx2.redhat.com) (66.187.237.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:20:06 +0000 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n31JHqsQ012378; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:17:52 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n31JHriV031997; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:17:53 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (vpn-12-85.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.12.85]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n31JHpHh015096; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:17:52 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2C07F3784C0; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 13:17:50 -0600 (MDT) To: Jeffrey Yasskin Cc: LLVM Developers Mailing List , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Connecting JITted code to gdb References: From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:20:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Jeffrey Yasskin's message of "Tue\, 31 Mar 2009 12\:33\:47 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-04/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Yasskin writes: Jeffrey> I'm adding the gdb list because it appears there's currently Jeffrey> no way to tell gdb about newly-JITted code. Jeffrey> It would be better to have an interface through which a Jeffrey> JITting library could tell gdb about newly-generated code. Jeffrey> I don't really know enough about the internals of LLVM or gdb to make Jeffrey> any recommendations, but I think it would be useful to find some way Jeffrey> for them (and other debuggers and JITs) to talk to each other. This sounds like an excellent project. I think the only real barrier is finding someone dedicated to making it work. Tom