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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Cc: archer@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Improved linker-debugger interface
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 20:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31uzer42u.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinytKxuubfkVOcvdKiiczUrmvkyLDOeof3sPKg1Qycx7Q@mail.gmail.com> (Paul Pluzhnikov's message of "Tue, 31 May 2011 13:40:29 -0700")

Paul> Once the probe is located, the in-process debugger still has a problem:
Paul> not enough space to place a patch on (in-process debugger can not put a
Paul> breakpoint on the one instruction that is available).

Paul> Making the probes wider would be ideal.

I asked and the SystemTap guys said that they'd welcome a patch, but
that the widening would have to be optional.  (There are already a
couple of knobs in sdt.h, controlled by some #define.)

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-31 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-25 15:37 Gary Benson
2011-05-25 18:21 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-26 17:02   ` Gary Benson
2011-05-26 17:25     ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-26 17:37 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2011-05-26 17:47   ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-26 21:07     ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-31 16:25   ` Gary Benson
2011-05-31 19:46     ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-31 20:41       ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2011-05-31 20:46         ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-05-31 21:05           ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2011-06-02 23:56             ` Tom Tromey
2011-06-07 16:58 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-06-08 10:56   ` Gary Benson
2011-06-01  1:24 Frank Ch. Eigler
2011-06-02 23:56 ` Tom Tromey

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