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Re: RFA: new gdbarch methods for inserting/removing breakpoints
- To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: RFA: new gdbarch methods for inserting/removing breakpoints
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:13:33 +1000
- CC: Andrew Cagney <cagney at cygnus dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <991013215436.ZM909@ocotillo.lan>
Kevin Buettner wrote:
>
> Andrew, et.al,
>
> I would like to check in the changes below. These changes will allow
> us to write architecture specific versions of
> memory_insert_breakpoint() and memory_remove_breakpoint(). Custom
> versions of these functions are needed on architectures where an
> instruction is a strange size and/or does not fall neatly on a
> byte-aligned boundary. (E.g, ia64.)
Should ``default_memory_insert_breakpoint'' be made the default so that
other targets continue to work?
I may have missed it?
> I'll add some documentation to doc/gdbint.texinfo after approval.
I'll arange for someone to stand over you until you do this :-)
Andrew