On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Zach Welch <z...@superlucidity.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 10:36 +0100, Øyvind Harboe wrote: >> >> > No one was talking about linking with GDB. That's just insane. ;) >> >> > libbfd is part of binutils. But again it should be_optional. >> >> >> >> OK. Explain the benefit of complicating OpenOCD vs. adding a script >> >> to launch OpenOCD via GDB then... >> > >> > Seriously... you've never had a Heisenbug either? Am I the only one >> > that gets segfaults and doesn't _want_ to have to debug them? Really? >> >> You're not answering the question: > > You're not seeing my point. > >> How is your solution better than writing a script "openocd" that launches >> openocd from GDB by default? > > You want to _force_ me to _always_ run GDB, to catch random segfaults?
Explain what's so bad about that, at least for non-releases. A bt + dumping local variables would be superior to your code in terms of information provided, right? > Please tell me (justly) I'm wrong. I have not tried your patches, I assume they work and do what you describe. I'm not *against* your patches, I'm just trying to tie up some loose ends in alternatives we don't seem to have considered yet. -- Øyvind Harboe US toll free 1-866-980-3434 / International +47 51 63 25 00 http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html ARM7 ARM9 ARM11 XScale Cortex JTAG debugger and flash programmer _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
