From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20352 invoked by alias); 31 May 2011 20:46:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact archer-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Sender: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Received: (qmail 20343 invoked by uid 22791); 31 May 2011 20:46:37 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Tom Tromey To: Paul Pluzhnikov Cc: archer@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Improved linker-debugger interface References: <20110525153649.GB3149@redhat.com> <20110531162428.GB3464@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 20:46:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Paul Pluzhnikov's message of "Tue, 31 May 2011 13:40:29 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2011-q2/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 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