From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gateway20.websitewelcome.com (gateway20.websitewelcome.com [192.185.60.19]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 947EE386EC3E for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 21:20:52 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 947EE386EC3E Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=tromey.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=tom@tromey.com Received: from cm11.websitewelcome.com (cm11.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.5]) by gateway20.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B772400D0570 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 15:15:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from box5379.bluehost.com ([162.241.216.53]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id xciBkQyu3nPrxxciCkaBi9; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:20:52 -0600 X-Authority-Reason: nr=8 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tromey.com; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=Pq68566dJ8OjbU+DD7M1eI8MCn2gEqQbd6RycnMxhPM=; b=vCRi8f2NLu2h/TqfAVraIinnw1 xTQ9hGaHQrLvQC8pxvNVoepKYN5TYOskHENdi0Yz2rRLH4DTlONoSog/ZYrVJCnQLRwxpylYoWtIp Bpkbz/k32oQuR1OJ4elUH9YiT; Received: from 97-122-81-39.hlrn.qwest.net ([97.122.81.39]:42272 helo=murgatroyd) by box5379.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1kxciB-001Hzf-Ly; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:20:51 -0700 From: Tom Tromey To: Simon Marchi via Gdb Cc: Simon Marchi , doko@debian.org Subject: Re: Considering removing CTF (Common Trace Format) support in GDB References: <3fb1fbb6-836a-0e39-73a9-ef721630da88@polymtl.ca> X-Attribution: Tom Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:20:50 -0700 In-Reply-To: <3fb1fbb6-836a-0e39-73a9-ef721630da88@polymtl.ca> (Simon Marchi via Gdb's message of "Mon, 4 Jan 2021 00:04:04 -0500") Message-ID: <87a6tkv3yl.fsf@tromey.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - box5379.bluehost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - sourceware.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - tromey.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 97.122.81.39 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1kxciB-001Hzf-Ly X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: 97-122-81-39.hlrn.qwest.net (murgatroyd) [97.122.81.39]:42272 X-Source-Auth: tom+tromey.com X-Email-Count: 8 X-Source-Cap: ZWx5bnJvYmk7ZWx5bnJvYmk7Ym94NTM3OS5ibHVlaG9zdC5jb20= X-Local-Domain: yes X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3024.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL, RCVD_IN_ABUSEAT, RCVD_IN_BARRACUDACENTRAL, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_NEUTRAL, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: gdb@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Gdb mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:20:53 -0000 >>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi via Gdb writes: Simon> My personal opinion is (disclaimer: I work for EfficiOS, the company behind the Simon> Babeltrace project): as much as I would like to see Babeltrace 2 being used Simon> more, I don't think the CTF support in GDB, as it is today, makes sense. ... Simon> So if CTF support doesn't help in sharing the data with other tools, then it Simon> just becomes an alternative format to GDB's own format for saving/loading trace Simon> data. And I don't think it's particularly useful to have two formats for this. Sounds reasonable to me. Tom