>>>>> "Ananth" == Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ana...@in.ibm.com> writes:
Ananth> OTOH, the Tom Tromey alluded on lkml that if kernel provides Ananth> infrastructure that allows for breakpoint assistance and 'displaced' Ananth> stepping, with a suitable user interface, preferably a ptrace variant Ananth> that is fd based, they'll migrate gdb to using the interface. (The bp Ananth> assistance and displaced stepping can be provided with extensions to Ananth> the current uprobes set under review). Just to be clear, the interface doesn't matter to gdb. We'll port gdb to use any new interface that the kernel provides, assuming it provides some benefit. Tom