using tracepoints function with both host and target on same computer

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Wed Aug 7 06:11:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 08:08:54AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > If I have more free time than I expect to (:-) then I would like
> > to add this to gdbserver; but that won't be for at least six months.
> 
> IMHO, tracepoints should really become part of GDB itself, even for 
> native debugging.  That would allow us to debug programs where timing is 
> critical, such as real-time software, Emacs display engine, etc.  I miss 
> that feature a lot.

I agree; but my dream is to get back to modularization so that
gdbserver will use a small library that GDB also uses to do the actual
tracing, and tracepoints can be there.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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