[PATCH v3 00/10] Deprecate/rename singlestep command line option, monitor interfaces

[Markus Armbruster]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell at linaro.org> writes:

> On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 at 17:40, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell at linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> The command line option '-singlestep' and its HMP equivalent
>> the 'singlestep' command are very confusingly named, because
>> they have nothing to do with single-stepping the guest (either
>> via the gdb stub or by emulation of guest CPU architectural
>> debug facilities). What they actually do is put TCG into a
>> mode where it puts only one guest instruction into each
>> translation block. This is useful for some circumstances
>> such as when you want the -d debug logging to be easier to
>> interpret, or if you have a finicky guest binary that wants
>> to see interrupts delivered at something other than the end
>> of a basic block.
>
> I'm going to take this series via target-arm.next since
> I'm doing a pullreq anyway.

Yes, please!