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Re: Instrcutions that must not be stepped.
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 16:17 -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "PAUL" == PAUL GILLIAM <pgilliam@us.ibm.com> writes:
>
> >> By the way, if stepping these atomic sequences proves to be a
> >> performance problem, you might want to consider implementing
> >> stepping them in the (Linux) kernel.
>
> PAUL> This would be cool. It would be nice to be able to tell if the
> PAUL> kernel has support for this and let it handle atomic sequences
> PAUL> if it does. Let GDB handle it if the kernel doesn't.
>
> Similarly, in remote debugging, there should be a way to have the stub
> handle it. That means you may need some extensions to the stub
> protocol to encode some new information...
Perhaps something in "qSupported" stuff Danial Jacobowitz is working on?
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