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> > > From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) > Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:53:06 -0800 (PST) > > I have been maintaining a Linux port of gdb 4.17 with supports for > Intel x86 FPU, hardware watchpoint and glibc 2 threads. Is there > any plan to merge those into the future gdb? > > Of course I'd like to get everything in that is possible. I'm told > that of various FPU patches, Metzenheim's is the one to go for, in gdb 4.17.0.11 is Metzenheim's patch plus my own. I fixed a few things. > the case of hardware watchpoints I thought it was there already, so What is there for hardware watchpoints under x86 is unreliable and doesn't work like the way I like. > somebody needs to explain what's wrong with the existing bits, and > as for threads, the code I've seen so far seems to have reliability > and portability problems, so that's going to need some more work I > think. > The one in gdb 4.17.0.11 is very reliability. As for portability, it is totally a different issue. I don't see it as a problem. -- H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)