[Gdb] regarding tracepoint support in GDB

[ankit thukral]

hi,
    i think my previous mail wasn't recd. so i am
re-sending it.


bye,
ankit.


--- ankit thukral <address@hidden> wrote:
> hi,
>    i was reading the GDB manual and realized that
> there is,practically, no tracepoint support provided
> by GDB since this support is available only for
> remote
> targets and for the latter , GDB doesn't provide any
> stub (like gdbserver) which has tracepoint support.i
> have a few doubts in mind regarding this :
> 
> 1. why does GDB not provide this support for local
> host (i thought that would have been simpler)?
> 
> 2. is it not the case that the features (supposed to
> be) provided by tracepoints can be done using
> breakpoint features only (for instance , we can
> specify COMMANDS for  a breakpoint just as we can
> specify ACTIONS for tracepoints) ?
> 
> 3. does tracepoint use the same TRAP (or ILLEGAL )
> instruction mechanism for tracepoints as it does for
> breakpoints? if not, what does it do?
> 
> thanks in advance,
> ankit.



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