Instrcutions that must not be stepped.

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "PAUL" == PAUL GILLIAM <pgilliam@us.ibm.com> writes:

 >> By the way, if stepping these atomic sequences proves to be a
 >> performance problem, you might want to consider implementing
 >> stepping them in the (Linux) kernel.

 PAUL> This would be cool.  It would be nice to be able to tell if the
 PAUL> kernel has support for this and let it handle atomic sequences
 PAUL> if it does.  Let GDB handle it if the kernel doesn't.

Similarly, in remote debugging, there should be a way to have the stub
handle it.  That means you may need some extensions to the stub
protocol to encode some new information...

	 paul