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Re: [patch/rfc] Eliminate TARGET_HAS_HARDWARE_WATCHPOINTS

> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 10:28:26 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> Can you give an example - a target with no watchpoint support that no 
> longer builds due to my patch?

I don't think it is my job to find such a target.  Rather, it is up to
you to prove that no target will ever need that.

Anyway, I don't think this kind of approach to our argument is
productive.  I suggest that we instead concentrate on finding an
alternative machinery to compute TARGET_HAS_HARDWARE_WATCHPOINTS at
configure time.

How about this: for a cross-compiled build or for remote targets, add
a switch to the configure script, say --without-hw-watchpoints, that
will set TARGET_HAS_HARDWARE_WATCHPOINTS so as to disable hardware
watchpoint support; for native and non-cross builds, add an autoconf
test that will do that automatically?
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