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Re: [rfc, rfa/doc] Multi-threaded watchpoint improvements


> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:04:09 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> >   watched value has changed.  Watchpoints whose watched values has
> >   changed are announced as hit.
> 
> "have changed", right?

Blush.  Yes, of course.

> > > +@value{GDBN} only supports process-wide watchpoints.
> > 
> > "Process-wide watchpoints'' as opposed to what?
> 
> As opposed to thread-specific watchpoints.  We can make a watchpoint
> act like it is thread-specific (or we will be able to once Luis's
> patch is done), but we don't support setting hardware watchpoints that
> only trigger in a specific thread.  Yet, anyway.

I think you should add something like this explanation, to make the
intent clear.


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