From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Circular trace buffers
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003171851.37499.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BA119C4.9080307@codesourcery.com>
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 18:04:52, Stan Shebs wrote:
> > - this shows that "show circular-trace-buffer" is useless.
> > - this requires users know that fact.
> > - this doesn't sound user friendly.
> >
> I'm just not seeing a problem myself - it seems obvious that circularity
> of trace buffer only matters for future tracepoint hits, and doesn't
> matter for completed trace runs, trace files, etc. But I can rephrase
> the docs to make that clearer.
(Yes, please. Okay, let's go with that then.)
Let me show you examples: hopefully it is easy to see with
these how "show circular-trace-buffer" is broken as is.
Please can we have the following inconsistencies resolved?:
Target supports circular:
(gdb) tar rem :9999
(gdb) set circular-trace-buffer on
(gdb) show circular-trace-buffer
... on.
Fine.
Again, a target that supports circular, target wasn't
tracing on initial connection (disconnect-tracing off):
<not connected yet>
(gdb) set circular-trace-buffer on
(gdb) show circular-trace-buffer
... on.
(gdb) tar rem :9999
(gdb) show circular-trace-buffer
... on.
(gdb) set disconnected-tracing on
<set tracepoints>
(gdb) tstart
(gdb) detach
<end remote debug session>
(gdb) set circular-trace-buffer off
(gdb) tar rem :9999
(gdb) show circular-trace-buffer
... off
Really "off"? Ouch! See? QTstatus doesn't report the
circularity-ness, but the circularity is logically part of
the status of the current run.
Now against a target that _doesn't_ support QTBuffer (in circular mode):
<not connected yet>
(gdb) set circular-trace-buffer on
(gdb) show circular-trace-buffer
... on.
(gdb) tar rem :9999
<note, no complain, no warning>
(gdb) show circular-trace-buffer
Target's use of circular trace buffer is on.
Really?
(gdb) set circular-trace-buffer off
Target does not support this command.
(gdb) set circular-trace-buffer on
Target does not support this command.
(gdb)
Ouch!
You can't easily try the latter case, because a new
"set remote circular...-packet command is missing.
--
Pedro Alves
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-17 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-16 21:42 Stan Shebs
2010-03-17 7:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-17 16:00 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-17 16:55 ` Stan Shebs
2010-03-17 17:19 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-17 18:05 ` Stan Shebs
2010-03-17 18:51 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2010-03-18 22:14 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-18 23:34 ` Stan Shebs
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