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Re: [RFC] Unified watchpoints for x86 platforms

> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:41:35 -0700
> From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
> > 
> > Is there any particular reason why you need the PID argument?  AFAICS
> > it will always be equal to INFERIOR_PID, so I think we can do without
> > it.  This is also true for the other i386_hwbp_* functions you're
> > proposing.
> 
> I think it'd be better to not rely on ``inferior_pid''.  I would
> rather see the explicitly passed.  There will come a day when GDB
> is able to debug more than one process at a time and to perpetuate
> reliance on inferior pid would be short sighted.

I have two opposite opinions here.  We need to resolve this somehow.

> I have read the rest of Eli's proposal as well as Mark's comments and
> I agree with the rest of Mark's remarks.

Thanks for the feedback.
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