Re: [PING] [PATCH v3] gdb: ADI support

[Wei-min Pan <weimin dot pan at oracle dot com>]

On 7/11/2017 5:43 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 07/12/2017 01:36 AM, Weimin Pan wrote:
> > Simply using target_fileio_xxx routines to replace their
> > corresponding open/pread64/pwrite64/close calls, as you
> > suggested, does solve the cross-referencing problem.
> > The cross gdb build for all targets was then retried and
> > was successful.
> Great.  If you can make sure that the new test runs
> FAIL free against gdbserver too, that'll be super.

OK, will give it a try.

> Note that this /proc reading won't work with core debugging,
> of course.  If it makes sense to inspect ADI state in core
> dumps, and the info is actually available in the cores, the
> target_object / target_xfer path may be the way to go.
> But that can be left for later if you'd like.

Thanks for pointing it out and will keep that in mind. Dumping ADI state 
to a
core file, most likely in a separate ELF section, is planned for the 
next phase.
Until that's done,  ADI  information will only be available for live 
processes.

> Thanks,
> Pedro Alves