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- <h3 class="section">13.4 Using Trace Files</h3>
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- <p>In some situations, the target running a trace experiment may no
- longer be available; perhaps it crashed, or the hardware was needed
- for a different activity. To handle these cases, you can arrange to
- dump the trace data into a file, and later use that file as a source
- of trace data, via the <code>target tfile</code> command.
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- <dt><code>tsave [ -r ] <var>filename</var></code></dt>
- <dt><code>tsave [-ctf] <var>dirname</var></code></dt>
- <dd><p>Save the trace data to <var>filename</var>. By default, this command
- assumes that <var>filename</var> refers to the host filesystem, so if
- necessary <small>GDB</small> will copy raw trace data up from the target and
- then save it. If the target supports it, you can also supply the
- optional argument <code>-r</code> (“remote”) to direct the target to save
- the data directly into <var>filename</var> in its own filesystem, which may be
- more efficient if the trace buffer is very large. (Note, however, that
- <code>target tfile</code> can only read from files accessible to the host.)
- By default, this command will save trace frame in tfile format.
- You can supply the optional argument <code>-ctf</code> to save data in CTF
- format. The <em>Common Trace Format</em> (CTF) is proposed as a trace format
- that can be shared by multiple debugging and tracing tools. Please go to
- ‘<code>http://www.efficios.com/ctf</code>’ to get more information.
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- <dt><code>target tfile <var>filename</var></code></dt>
- <dt><code>target ctf <var>dirname</var></code></dt>
- <dd><p>Use the file named <var>filename</var> or directory named <var>dirname</var> as
- a source of trace data. Commands that examine data work as they do with
- a live target, but it is not possible to run any new trace experiments.
- <code>tstatus</code> will report the state of the trace run at the moment
- the data was saved, as well as the current trace frame you are examining.
- Both <var>filename</var> and <var>dirname</var> must be on a filesystem accessible to
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- <pre class="smallexample">(gdb) target ctf ctf.ctf
- (gdb) tfind
- Found trace frame 0, tracepoint 2
- 39 ++a; /* set tracepoint 1 here */
- (gdb) tdump
- Data collected at tracepoint 2, trace frame 0:
- i = 0
- a = 0
- b = 1 '\001'
- c = {"123", "456", "789", "123", "456", "789"}
- d = {{{a = 1, b = 2}, {a = 3, b = 4}}, {{a = 5, b = 6}, {a = 7, b = 8}}}
- (gdb) p b
- $1 = 1
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