Hey guys, I wasn't sure what the intended outcome with tracing v. debugging was going to be. It sounds like the move is to "debug" as a more general term, though it will support all of the "trace" functionality. In that case, my confusion arose from the naming of the flags. Since "trace-file" and "trace-start" now go along with the other debug flags (i.e. you wouldn't use them unless you're using the debug flags), it probably makes sense to change the names to reflect the connection. For instance, "debug-trace-file" and "debug-trace-start" are clearer and still reflect that you'll be collecting a trace. Joel
> I was thinking og doing it since Nate is not around. I'll do it soon. > > > >> instance, "trace-flags", and "trace-file" are still accepted, but they > >> don't > >> do anything now. They should be eliminated from the message. We're > also > >> missing the equivalent of "trace-start" and "trace-file". Do you mind > >> cleaning that up? > > Are you sure that trace-file doesn't work? I've basically renamed > --trace-help to --debug-help, so the former can be removed. Also I've > renamed --trace-flags to --debug-flags, so that one can be removed > too. (I intended to, I just screwed up.) The purpose of renaming > trace flags to debug flags is that the flags themselves can be used > for a lot more than tracing (I'm starting to use them to insert > debugging breakpoints, they're used for exec trace which is really a > different tracing facility, they can be used for whatever) and it > seemed odd to have two different classes of flags (though we could do > that if we wanted to). > > The only error that I know of right now is that --trace-help and > --trace-flags still exist and silently act when they shouldn't. I'm > compiling right now, but things are slow on my laptop. I'll test out > --trace-file, but I'm not sure why that would have changed at all. > > Nate > _______________________________________________ > m5-dev mailing list > m5-dev@m5sim.org > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > -- Joel Hestness PhD Student, Computer Architecture Dept. of Computer Science, University of Texas - Austin http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~hestness _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list m5-dev@m5sim.org http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
