using tracepoints function with both host and target on same computer

William A. Gatliff bgat@billgatliff.com
Wed Aug 7 07:51:00 GMT 2002


Eli:


> 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.

Wouldn't some kind of stub be present in these situations anyway?  So
it'd still be an implementation concern for the stub...

In fact, I don't see how you could do tracepoints effectively in
anything resembling real time without stub assistance.



b.g.
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