RE: [dsdp-dd-dev] Is there any need for a multi-Container MIimplementati

[Frederic RISS <frederic.riss@xxxxxx>]

Le lundi 17 mars 2008 à 15:02 -0400, Marc Khouzam a écrit :
> > What I'd like to discuss in this mail is the other part of the
> > modifications we did to support our usage. In a nutshell, a lot of
> > components assume that there's only one Container context (ie. only one
> > debugger), which isn't true for us. I was wondering if there might be
> > general interest in patches that introduces awareness of multiple
> > top-level contexts. 
> 
> >From an Ericsson perspective, we do have interest in multiple top-level
> contexts.  We are not quite there yet, but will need to tackle this problem
> in the coming month or two.  So, at least for me, I would appreciate
> seeing what you have done for this support.

I can try to cleanup one of our hacks and post it. For example the
CommandCache modifications. It's no rocket science and I think the
abstraction might not be the right one if we want to share the code with
another different usage scenario, but it's a start.

To be more specific, we have multiple Container contexts and thus choose
to store per-ContainerContext state. If you would like to use a similar
mechanism to handle thread specific state (as GDB won't be globally
running or stopped), you'd need to store per-ExecutionContext state.

> Integrating this in DSF is another question though, as there is some work
> being done there (although it is currently on hold.)  So, I will leave it
> to more knowlegeable people than I, to address this question.

I'm a bit confused now. Are you speaking about integrating non-stop
thread debugging into DSF or something else? When you expressed your
interest in multiple top-level contexts above, was it wrt a single GDB
in non-stop mode or maybe multiple GDBs in the same session? Just to be
sure what we're discussing...

Fred.