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Re: [PATCH v2] Shorter fast tracepoints
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:50:28 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Shorter fast tracepoints
- References: <4EBC887C.5070000@earthlink.net>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:29:16 -0800
> From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
>
> --- NEWS 2 Nov 2011 23:44:19 -0000 1.464
> +++ NEWS 11 Nov 2011 02:09:28 -0000
> @@ -129,6 +129,10 @@ collect[/s] EXPRESSIONS
> begin, assuming that tracepoints will be enabled as needed while the trace
> is running.
>
> +* Fast tracepoints on 32-bit x86-architectures can now be placed at
> + locations with 4-byte instructions, when they were previously
> + limited to locations with instructions of 5 bytes or longer.
> +
> * New options
>
> set extended-prompt
> @@ -160,6 +164,11 @@ QTDisable
>
> Dynamically disable a tracepoint in a started trace experiment.
>
> +qTMinFTPILen
> +
> + Query the minimum length of instruction at which a fast tracepoint may
> + be placed.
> +
This part is OK.
> +@item qTMinFTPILen
> +This packet requests the minimum length of instruction at which a fast
> +tracepoint may be placed.
This is sufficiently far from the description of fast tracepoints to
warrant a cross-reference to there.
The doco parts are okay with this change.
Thanks.