RE: Tracepoints

["Newman, Mark (N-Superior Technical Resource Inc)" <mark dot newman at lmco dot com>]

I don't want to go into detail until I get some kind of a feel for how
this will be accepted but would the community mind if I took a stab at
redoing the front end so that commands like "show", "tfind", "tdump"
could be performed when the target or inferior is running?

This would of course be done under either a compile switch or a runtime
switch to ensure compatability with the current tools.

                                     Mark Newman


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Cagney [mailto:ac131313@redhat.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 3:24 PM
To: Newman, Mark (N-Superior Technical Resource Inc)
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Tracepoints


> Regarding tracepoints :
> 
> Two things
> 
> First native debugging is not impossible - it simply requires
something like 
> 
> target remote localhost:65500
> tp 52
> action
> collect i,j,k
> collect br
> end
> tstart
> cont
> 
> Second - is there any technical reason (other than the required
isolation of functionality) to stop the target to do a tfind and a
tdump.  Can these be performed while the target is running (in theory -
in practice gdb stops the target).

None ``other than the required isolation of functionality'' (read work 
on the target vector).

Andrew