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authorStan Shebs <shebs@codesourcery.com>2011-11-02 23:44:21 +0000
committerStan Shebs <shebs@codesourcery.com>2011-11-02 23:44:21 +0000
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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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@@ -489,6 +489,11 @@ named @code{trace_quick16}, for consistency.
Record the value of trace state variable number @var{n} in the trace
buffer. The handling of @var{n} is as described for @code{getv}.
+@item @code{tracenz} (0x2f) @var{addr} @var{size} @result{}
+Record the bytes at @var{addr} in a trace buffer, for later retrieval
+by GDB. Stop at either the first zero byte, or when @var{size} bytes
+have been recorded, whichever occurs first.
+
@item @code{end} (0x27): @result{}
Stop executing bytecode; the result should be the top element of the
stack. If the purpose of the expression was to compute an lvalue or a