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Re: [RFC stub-side break conditions 0/5] General info


> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:12:16 -0800
> From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
> 
> For a uniprocessor, target-side evaluation is likely to be a mixed bag; 
> it will be a win for conditional breakpoints in inner loops, but there 
> is a distinct heisenbug possibility, and it will likely be standard 
> advice to go back to host-side evaluation if the code is racy or 
> generally being erratic.
> 
> For multicore, target-side enables debugging usages that have simply not 
> been possible before, such as a conditional breakpoint on 100 cores.  
> Even if half the cores are being slowed down by evaluating the 
> conditional test, it still beats the traffic jam of GDB reading and 
> writing packets for each core!

Thanks.  It would be nice to have this explanation in the manual.


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