Re: Porting gdb to Cyclops64

[Brian Heilig <bheilig@etinternational.com>]

On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 11:57 -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> The default mode is synchronous debugging, which means that any time
> you are looking at the gdb prompt, the target is stopped.
> 
> It would probably be easiest to implement that first and get it working,
> before attempting asynchronous mode.
> 
> So yes, attaching with gdb should stop the target.

Thanks again Michael.

Since all threads execute in parallel, more than one thread can hit a
breakpoint. In stop mode I should stop all threads when the first thread
hits a breakpoint. While stopping all threads other threads might hit a
breakpoint. My intention is to queue these "events" and report them in
sequential order to gdb. So that, in stop mode, when gdb tells the
target to continue it will actually dequeue the next event. If there are
no events then it will continue. Does this sound correct?

I guess I will have to implement non-stop mode as well since many
threads can hit a breakpoint. It would be very inconvenient for my user
to have to continue each thread individually. In this case I will not
queue events but rather just send them to gdb and let gdb sort them out.
Is this correct as well?

Regards,
Brian