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Re: [RFC] design question re: watchpoint target methods


Joel Brobecker wrote:
Hello everyone,

Jan said:
[...] I find the single functionality being split into two target
functions (to_stopped_by_watchpoint and to_stopped_data_address) to be
confusing.  Chose a new name to easily be able to keep the old
deprecated implementations working until its host maintainers can get
to update them as I cannot even compile some of the host files.

I tend to agree because I do not know of any reason why this separation would be needed. Any reason why we should reject Jan's suggestion to have a single target operation instead of two? His proposal is to mark the following methods as deprecated:

    int (*to_stopped_by_watchpoint) (void);
    int (*to_stopped_data_address) (struct target_ops *, CORE_ADDR *);

And to replace them by by a new operation:

    enum stopped_by_watchpoint (*to_thread_stopped_by_watchpoint)
        (ptid_t ptid, CORE_ADDR *data_address_p);

Actually, I think that all target_ops operations should take a struct
target_ops parameter, even if not needed, at least for consistency, but
also to facilitate transitions if this parameter ever becomes needed
later on.

One difference in the new operation is that it is now explicitly
applicable to a specific ptid rather than being implicitly applicable
to the current_ptid.

enum stopped_by_watchpoint is proposed to be:
+enum stopped_by_watchpoint
+  {
+    stopped_by_watchpoint_no,
+    stopped_by_watchpoint_yes_address_unknown,
+    stopped_by_watchpoint_yes_address_known
+  };

FWIW, I think it would be a good change.


I am somewhat ignorant about the namespace of ptid, but in the presence of multi-process debugging many of the target operations need to differentiate for which process the operation is intended. I would hope that ptid would serve that purpose.

Certainly mips-linux-nat.c would be affected by such a change.


Thanks, David Daney


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