From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21930 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2012 17:40:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 21756 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Apr 2012 17:40:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ausxipps301.us.dell.com (HELO ausxipps301.us.dell.com) (143.166.148.223) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:39:29 +0000 X-Loopcount0: from 10.175.216.250 From: To: , CC: , , , Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:40:00 -0000 Subject: RE: Will therefore GDB utilize C++ or not? Message-ID: <09787EF419216C41A903FD14EE5506DD0313F18196@AUSX7MCPC103.AMER.DELL.COM> References: <20120416065456.GA30097@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4F8ECB72.70708@redhat.com> <20120418151553.GA16768@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4F8EDD7B.2010602@redhat.com> <20120418155354.GA17912@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120418160644.GC25623@adacore.com> <20120418161315.GC18303@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120418162255.GD25623@adacore.com> <4F8EEC55.7080008@oarcorp.com> <4F8EF0BB.4070405@redhat.com> <20120418165702.GE25623@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20120418165702.GE25623@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00128.txt.bz2 Same here. A NetBSD system with 128 MB of memory (there is more elsewhere,= but not for that OS or for its processes). Gdbserver is a wonderful tool,= making possible debugging that gdb could not possibly do because of its si= ze. But for that to work it has to remain small. It's already pushing the= limits (300k or so when linked statically). paul -----Original Message----- From: gdb-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf = Of Joel Brobecker Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 12:57 PM To: Pedro Alves Cc: Joel Sherrill; Jan Kratochvil; Tom Tromey; gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Will therefore GDB utilize C++ or not? > > Wading in late .. but is the gdbserver intended to run on an=20 > > embedded RTOS with just threads? >=20 > No, it assumes some more unixy-ish OS what spawns processes, though it=20 > scales down to Linux with uclibc, bionic, and other userspaces [...] The point remains valid, though, that GDBserver needs to remain reasonably = small. We run LynxOS on boards that occasionally run out of memory, so reso= urce management is a concern... -- Joel