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I just asked the same question about the "trace facility in the dbx
sense" three months ago and digged into the gdb source.

I found out that this functionality would require more than, say, a
twenty line patch.  The framework for integrating "trace points" as
another variant of break and watchpoints points is there.  The new
"trace" commands set would nicely fit into it (arguments/syntax just
like "break" commands with lots of code reuse possible).  I'd estimate
that modifications would mainly concern about three modules.

But at that time, I was just too busy with my regular work(*) to
figure out how to distribute the trace marks into the code (for a
"trace function fred" command).  I felt not being expert enough to
assess viability/quality my own idea for an implementation and didn't
any further work on it.  (A broad, two page overview about gdb's inner
concepts and workings would have been very helpful at that point.)

						Martin Neitzel

(*) Still am, sorry.