Re: [RFC] Removing in process agent (IPA)
Tom Tromey <[email protected]>
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>> I'd like to have a conversation about whether or not we want to keep the >> in-process-agent (IPA or libinproctrace.so). Maybe you should ask on gdb@. I personally have never used tracepoints or IPA. However, I'm not exactly in the target audience, either, since most of my debugging is on gdb itself. Luis> Similarly, I also think it might be time to consider dropping the tracepoints Luis> (mainly static and fast) machinery from gdbserver, as I suspect that is another Luis> mechanism that is not being used very often. Something I found out relatively recently is that agent expressions are useful for letting gdbserver evaluate (some) breakpoint conditions. This happens automatically, when possible, and greatly improves performance. So, while I don't really mind either way about tracepoints, if we do remove these we should be careful to keep this part. Tom