Re: Faster stepping amidst breakpoints

[Maxim Grigoriev <maxim at tensilica dot com>]

Thanks much for your fast reply, Daniel.

I will experiment with  "set breakpoint always-inserted"
and see, if this is exactly what we need.

-- Maxim

On 01/22/2011 04:14 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 03:05:49PM -0800, Maxim Grigoriev wrote:
>    
> > Hello GDB community,
> >
> > Has anyone tried to optimize the GDB protocol by letting
> > the remote agent plant and unplant breakpoints when the
> > target resumes and stops, rather than having GDB do it
> > over the wire with round-trip latency on every single
> > breakpoint plant&   unplant request?
> >
> > Certain GDB operations involve a lot of single-stepping,
> > which can be really slow on certain targets (especially
> > embedded targets) because of that latency.
> >      
> Consider "set breakpoint always-inserted".
>
> I've been wondering lately if we should flip the default.
>
>