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From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracepoint: add new trace command "printf"[0] gdb
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik=K4Dk-Mkc5P7DDofzqwThhE6LvCM4rT-U_LNt@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimhMH+qUE1NmQ+f6+L8BcEU+k07eU+M9B-gLsrk@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I add a new patch add new trace command "printf".
> This printf is same with the simple gdb command, it can do formatted
> output.  But it will happen in gdbserver part when it break by a
> tracepoint.
> Then the user can get the format value that he want in tracepint.  It
> will be more easy and clear to handle the bug sometimes.

One could do this with a breakpoint and attaching commands to the
breakpoint too, right?
Or are they too cumbersome for the intended use case?
[Extending tracepoints like this doesn't seem justified yet, so I'm
just looking for more data.]

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-03 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-03 16:29 Hui Zhu
2011-01-03 19:21 ` Doug Evans [this message]
2011-01-04  4:34   ` Hui Zhu
2011-01-04  6:19     ` Doug Evans
2011-01-04 12:07       ` Hui Zhu
2011-01-05 17:24       ` Doug Evans
2011-01-05 18:18         ` Michael Snyder
2011-01-06  6:42           ` Hui Zhu
2011-01-05 20:51       ` Stan Shebs
2011-01-06  6:43         ` Hui Zhu
2011-01-28  5:54           ` Hui Zhu
2011-02-04 15:59             ` Hui Zhu
2011-02-11  3:49               ` Hui Zhu
2011-02-11 18:45               ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-17  8:16                 ` Hui Zhu
2011-02-21  8:18                   ` Hui Zhu

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