Re: gdbstub initial code, v11

2010-09-23 Thread Roland McGrath
The ones I'm talking about are Z2/Z3 for (data) watchpoints. Ah, OK, thanks. I'll try to understand how this works. In theory these will map to uses of the hw_breakpoint interface. Thanks, Roland

Re: gdbstub initial code, v11

2010-09-23 Thread Roland McGrath
I think it would be good to implement a feature that shows how this approach is an improvement over the current state of gdb+ptrace or gdb+gdbserver. Exactly what feature this should be... I don't know :-) I would imagine something performance-related. My vague notion was that we'd get it

Re: gdbstub initial code, v11

2010-09-23 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Hi - On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:21:38PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: The ones I'm talking about are Z2/Z3 for (data) watchpoints. Ah, OK, thanks. I'll try to understand how this works. In theory these will map to uses of the hw_breakpoint interface. Not quite. The hw_breakpoint widget

Re: [PATCH] utrace: utrace_reset() should clear TIF_SINGLESTEP if no more engines

2010-09-23 Thread Roland McGrath
I think we should start with changing utrace_control(DETACH) anyway, then try to improve. I'll ressend the one-liner I already showed. Ok. Hmm. I'll try to think more. Right now I don't really understand how to do this correctly. I wasn't immediately sure either. OK,