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| author | Stan Shebs <shebs@codesourcery.com> | 2011-11-02 23:44:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Stan Shebs <shebs@codesourcery.com> | 2011-11-02 23:44:21 +0000 |
| commit | 3065dfb6b4e2e605b3601c5f71fa25de5dd4970e (patch) | |
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2011-11-02 Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
String collection for tracepoints.
* NEWS: Mention string collection.
* common/ax.def (tracenz): New bytecode.
* ax-gdb.h (trace_string_kludge): Declare.
* ax-gdb.c: Include valprint.h and c-lang.h.
(trace_string_kludge): New global.
(gen_traced_pop): Add string case.
(agent_command): Add string case.
* tracepoint.h (decode_agent_options): Declare.
* tracepoint.c: Include cli-utils.h.
(decode_agent_options): New function.
(validate_actionline): Call it.
(encode_actions_1): Ditto.
* target.h (struct target_ops): New method to_supports_string_tracing.
(target_supports_string_tracing): New macro.
* target.c (update_current_target): Add to_supports_string_tracing.
* remote.c (struct remote_state): New field string_tracing.
(remote_string_tracing_feature): New function.
(remote_protocol_features): New feature tracenz.
(remote_supports_string_tracing): New function.
(init_remote_ops): Set to_supports_string_tracing.
* tracepoint.c (agent_mem_read_string): New function.
(eval_agent_expr): Call it for tracenz.
* server.c (handle_query): Report support for tracenz.
* gdb.texinfo (Tracepoint Action Lists): Document collect/s.
(General Query Packets): Describe tracenz feature.
* agentexpr.texi (Bytecode Descriptions): Describe tracenz.
* gdb.trace/collection.c: Add code using strings.
* gdb.trace/collection.exp: Add tests of string collection.
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@@ -114,6 +114,14 @@ info auto-load-scripts [REGEXP] This command was formerly named "maintenance print section-scripts". It is now generally useful and is no longer a maintenance-only command. +collect[/s] EXPRESSIONS + The tracepoint collect command now takes an optional modifier "/s" + that directs it to dereference pointer-to-character types and + collect the bytes of memory up to a zero byte. The behavior is + similar to what you see when you use the regular print command on a + string. An optional integer following the "/s" sets a bound on the + number of bytes that will be collected. + * Tracepoints can now be enabled and disabled at any time after a trace experiment has been started using the standard "enable" and "disable" commands. It is now possible to start a trace experiment with no enabled |