Re: GUI Debugger

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 05:32:43PM -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote:
> Of course, Linux (and Linux debuggers) are still in the stone age and
> don't support any of this. Somebody really needs to take ptrace() and
> gdb out back and shoot them.

There's nothing fundamentally stopping this in either the design of ptrace or
the architecture of gdb. Someone just needs to expose the relevant functions.
You can also BTW to TLB miss tracing on an x86 CPU with a few slightly evil
hacks.