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Re: using tracepoints function with both host and target on same computer
- From: "William A. Gatliff" <bgat at billgatliff dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:51:53 -0500
- Subject: Re: using tracepoints function with both host and target on same computer
- References: <20020806215201.GA5715@nevyn.them.org> <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020807080720.16955E-100000@is>
- Reply-to: bgat at billgatliff dot com
Eli:
> IMHO, tracepoints should really become part of GDB itself, even for
> native debugging. That would allow us to debug programs where timing is
> critical, such as real-time software, Emacs display engine, etc. I miss
> that feature a lot.
Wouldn't some kind of stub be present in these situations anyway? So
it'd still be an implementation concern for the stub...
In fact, I don't see how you could do tracepoints effectively in
anything resembling real time without stub assistance.
b.g.
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Bill Gatliff
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