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Re: Debugging agent library
- From: Yao Qi <yao at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Suchakra Sharma <suchakrapani dot sharma at polymtl dot ca>
- Cc: <gdb at sourceware dot org>, <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 15:33:22 +0800
- Subject: Re: Debugging agent library
- References: <1367868074 dot 5194 dot 19 dot camel at station15 dot dorsal dot polymtl dot ca>
Hello,
Suchakra,
On 05/07/2013 03:21 AM, Suchakra Sharma wrote:
Hi,
We tried to find out how to use the debugging agent library here [1] but
were unsuccessful. As of now, we have built a test app linked to dagent
It would be nice if you post some details about how you use dagent and
the error message you got.
which creates a socket file and expects commands. We wish to use it with
GDB as well as other applications to primarily objective of tracing
using GDB's fast tracepoint infra. Any help in this regard will be
appreciated.
[1] https://github.com/MentorEmbedded/Debug-Agent-Library/wiki
I checked out the wiki and realize that the existing documentation has
an assumption that readers are much familiar with GDB and GDB
tracepoint. The session below shows how to install fast tracepoint
through dagent.
In one console, start the program in GDBserver,
$ LD_PRELOAD=/install/lib/libdagent.so ./gdbserver/gdbserver :1234
./testsuite/gdb.base/break
In the other console, start GDB and connect to GDBserver,
$ ./gdb ./testsuite/gdb.base/break
(gdb) target remote :1234
(gdb) b main
(gdb) c
(gdb) b marker4 // set breakpoint to make sure program doesn't exit
(gdb) ftrace *0x0804851e // set fast tracepoint at certain address
(gdb) set agent on // enable agent
(gdb) tstart // start tracing
(gdb) c
(gdb) tstop // stop tracing
(gdb) tfind // examine the trace frames tracepoint collects
Found trace frame 0, tracepoint 3
#0 main (argc=<unavailable>, argv=<unavailable>, envp=<unavailable>) at
../../../../git/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/break.c:94
94 marker1 (); /* set breakpoint 11 here */
Let me know if you get something else or obviously wrong.
--
Yao (éå)