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Hardware Watchpoint/Breakpoints and Remote Protocol
- From: Steven Johnson <sjohnson at neurizon dot net>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:05:56 +1000
- Subject: Hardware Watchpoint/Breakpoints and Remote Protocol
- Organization: Neurizon Pty Ltd
The support for Hardware Watchpoints and Breakpoints in the remote
protocol is currently unusable. The code is all there (mostly) but it
can never be activated because it is forced to think all targets have no
resources to support these. Currently there is no way to make the
remote protocol think anything other.
Attached is a patch that creates two commands from GDB to allow the
number of Hardware Watchpoints and Breakpoints supported by a remote
target to be set to something other than zero. Doing this makes them
work good.
Ideally, the target would be interogated to find out what it supports,
but that is a bigger harder patch and would require much greater work
than this simple fix. (Arguably for little real gain).
Its also not very accurate, because sometimes hardware allows (for
example) different numbers of watchpoints, depending on the type of
watchpoints that have been set. (The MPC8XX watchpoint unit for example).
Comments welcome, it works excellent for me using Motorola MPC862
Hardware watchpoint support, and a BDM interface communicating to GDB
with the remote protocol over TCPIP.
The patch was made against a version of GDB just prior to V5.3, but it
applies to V5.3 fine.
Regards,
Steven
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patch-enable-hw-remote-features
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