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RE: [PING][RFA-v2] Fix troubles with watchpoints in DJGPP
Would this be OK then?
Pierre
PS: It could be optimized in the sense that it should only be called
if it has not been called yet.
2009-06-17 Pierre Muller <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
* infcmd.c (post_create_inferior): Call breakpoint_re_set after
target
is pushed for watchpoint promotion to hardware watchpoint.
Index: src/gdb/infcmd.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/infcmd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.245
diff -u -p -r1.245 infcmd.c
--- src/gdb/infcmd.c 7 Jun 2009 16:46:48 -0000 1.245
+++ src/gdb/infcmd.c 8 Jun 2009 07:29:43 -0000
@@ -421,6 +421,13 @@ post_create_inferior (struct target_ops
#endif
}
+ /* On systems that load no shared libraries, like DJGPP target,
+ breakpoint_re_set is never called.
+ Call it now so that ordinary watchpoints get a chance to
+ become promoted to hardware watchpoints if the pushed target
+ supports hardware watchpoints. */
+ breakpoint_re_set ();
+
observer_notify_inferior_created (target, from_tty);
}
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De?: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-patches-
> owner@sourceware.org] De la part de Pedro Alves
> Envoyé?: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:00 AM
> À?: Pierre Muller
> Cc?: gdb-patches@sourceware.org; 'Eli Zaretskii'
> Objet?: Re: [PING][RFA-v2] Fix troubles with watchpoints in DJGPP
>
> On Tuesday 16 June 2009 23:37:38, Pierre Muller wrote:
> >
> > No one reacted to this second version of my patch...
>
> My reaction was that the patch looked OK,
> but please could you expand the comment some more to
> explain a bit better why we need this:
>
> + /* Call breakpoint_re_set to update watchpoints types. */
> + breakpoint_re_set ();
>
> This almost looks like:
>
> + /* Increment variable by one. */
> + i++;
>
> ;-)
>
> breakpoint_re_set is very likely to be something we
> will be wanting to split further, make smarter and/or
> eliminate, so having its non-obvious uses nicely described
> is a good thing, IMO.
>
> > I still have other hardware watchpoint related problems
> > that need to be discussed, but this one is really a small patch,
> > no ?
>
> --
> Pedro Alves