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Re: [patch] Increase the bar of printing `handling possible serial event'


On Thursday 10 November 2011 06:27:34, Yao Qi wrote:
> Hi,
> When I debug gdbserver by setting debug_thread to 1, I get many lines
> of `handling possible serial event' in log, which dose not carry any
> useful information for debugging purpose.
> 
> This patch is to increase the threshold of printing this sentence.  Or we
> may remove this print completely, because I can't figure out a case
> some one wants to read many lines of `handling possible serial event'
> in log.

I've found it more than once very useful when debugging non-stop/async mode
issues, where the order of serial and target events isn't predictable,
and knowing when a packet was just handled can help figure out
following weird behaviors.

If it bothers so much, I could go with outputting it only when non_stop is
on.  Just bumping is not good, because you can't set debug_thread to anything
other than 1 or 0 without recompiling gdbserver, and that's not good when
asking users for logs.

-- 
Pedro Alves


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