gdb : use of PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK

[Luis Machado]

On 07/11/2013 12:05 PM, Udma Catalin-Dan-B32721 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do you know of any situation where gdb used PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK?
> I found no reference on the current GDB, but there were any branches or older versions using it ?
> I'm asking because I saw some references to gdb using PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK in some linux-devel mailing lists.

Is this a request that has been implemented recently to single-step 
basic blocks (branch-to-branch)? I seem to recall ppc kernel had 
something like this.

Luis