Extending RSP with vCont;n and vCont;f

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Wed Oct 2 16:25:00 GMT 2013


> From: "ILG.Robert" <R.ILG@bachmann.info>
> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 15:08:02 +0000
> 
> we would like to improve the RSP command "vCont" for remote debugging. It seems that the range option has been introduced recently to get rid of time consuming, successive single-steps. Our intention is to get rid of further, unnecessary RSP packages being sent as our target is capable to do a step-over (called next by GDB) and a step-return (called finish by GDB). Therefore we propose to extend the vCont command with "vCont;n" and "vCont;f" as well.

Thanks.

> +  add_setshow_boolean_cmd ("finish-stepping", class_run,
> +                 &use_finish_stepping, _("\
> +  Enable or disable finish stepping."), _("\
> +  Show whether target-assisted finish stepping is enabled."), _("\
> +  If on, and the target supports it, when stepping out of a function, GDB\n\
> +  tells the target to step out of the corresponding stack frame itself.\n\
> +  This speeds up source level stepping. If off, GDB issues slower\n\
                                         ^^
Two spaces between sentences, please.



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