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Re: RFA: Elaborate on new overlay support

> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
> Date: 09 Feb 2002 11:17:46 -0500
> 
> Are you sure this is the right thing?  How breakpoints are implemented
> is usually completely hidden from the user.

Not completely: we have the "hbreak" command, for example.

If you meant to tell that even "break" sometimes sets a hardware
breakpoint, then I agree that it's an internal GDB matter, but if
those are the cases you refer to here, there's no need to explain at
length what hardware breakpoints are, just make a cross-reference to
the "Breakpoints" node, where the detailed explanation should live.
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