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Re: regarding tracepoint support on a stub
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: "Newman, Mark (N-Superior Technical Resource Inc)" <mark dot newman at lmco dot com>
- Cc: ankit thukral <ankit_plug at yahoo dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:21:35 -0500
- Subject: Re: regarding tracepoint support on a stub
- References: <F56FBA314E8E5A41895F0DA8F6716A6D02A1DA@EMSS04M11.us.lmco.com>
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:01:23PM -0500, Newman, Mark (N-Superior Technical Resource Inc) wrote:
> Would it be desireable to drop ptrace all together and start looking at
> using /proc in gdbserver?
/proc in Linux can not serve as a replacement for ptrace. The
functionality is not there.
>
> The man pages (both Sun's and GNU's) refer to ptrace as "unique and
> arcane".
>
> Mark Newman
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of ankit thukral
> > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 1:24 AM
> > To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: regarding tracepoint support on a stub
> >
> >
> > hi all,
> > i was going through the GDB support for
> > tracepoints and the packets it sends to the stub.i
> > thought of collecting the registers on the gdbserver
> > side using a single ptrace to collect all the
> > registers and then store the ones requested instead of
> > a ptrace for each register. the problem i now face is
> > : there are 3 different ptrace requests for collecting
> > registers,viz,PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and
> > PTRACE_GETFPAREGS.how do i determine (on the stub
> > side) which of these to call as i don't have anything
> > on the GDBSERVER side (or so i guess) which would
> > categorize a register to an integer or a float
> > register.
> > also,please suggest if there is a better way in
> > which i can accomplish the above(i.e.,implementation
> > of collecting registers in a better way).
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> > ankit.
> >
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer