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Re: [RFC] Observer mode
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Stan Shebs <stan at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:21:15 -0600
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Observer mode
- References: <4BD9C057.9090805@codesourcery.com>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com> writes:
Stan> We have been calling this "observer mode", and the customer's GDB
Stan> is actually configured to launch in this mode, to reduce the
Stan> chance of accidental stopping - the debugger user has to ask
Stan> specifically to change it to normal debugging mode.
It seems like a reasonable feature to me.
I can't really comment on the implementation approach.
Stan> #include "gdbcmd.h"
Stan> #include "value.h"
Stan> #include "target.h"
Stan> + extern int may_insert_tracepoints;
Stan> + extern int may_insert_fast_tracepoints;
Stan> #include "language.h"
Stan> #include "gdb_string.h"
Stan> #include "inferior.h"
The placement of these declarations seems rather odd.
I seem to keep running across this sort of thing for tracepoints.
I think a tracepoint-implementation-specific header file would be
cleaner.
Tom