On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 5:55 PM Andrew Burgess via Gdb-patches <
gdb-patches@sourceware.org> wrote:

> The goal of this series is to improve the user experience when using a
> local (running on the same machine as GDB) gdbserver.
>
> Outside of testing, there are still plenty of occasions when a user
> can end up running gdbserver on the same machine as GDB, tools like
> valgrind communicate via the remote protocol, as do many simulators
> (other than those built into GDB).
>
> This series includes the following improvements:
>
>   1. Better handling of gdbserver's default executable and arguments.
>   This applies to remote gdbservers and local gdbservers,
>
>   2. Allow sysroot 'target:' prefix to be ignored when gdbserver is
>   running locally to GDB, and
>
>   3. Allow the user to skip setting 'remote exec-file' if gdbserver is
>   running locally to GDB.
>
>
> I think the series is great, I'm really excited to see them. I especially
appreciate how this improves using GDB with Valgrind's vgdb --multi.