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Re: Is multiprocessor debugging multithreaded debugging?
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 01:24:05PM -0400, Aaron S. Kurland wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 11:14 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 12:26:00PM +0530, Anupama Chandwani wrote:
> > > Hello, i would like gdb to remote debug a homogeneous multiprocessor
> > > chip (with no OS) from my linux box. I want to use only a single
> > > session of gdb. How different is it from debugging multi-threaded
> > > programs? i.e Can each processor be treated as a thread? However there
> > > are different code images on each processor..
> >
> > GDB doesn't support debugging multiple code images at one time, only
> > single-program-single-data.
>
> Will it ever? Is this something that is planned? I'd be willing to
> dedicate a full time resource to such a project if anyone is interested
> in running it.
Standard answer: it will if someone is interested in implementing and
maintaining it. In this case, that mostly means thinking about the
user interface and MI interface issues involved; how to present this to
the user and to IDEs.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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