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Re: read watchpoints ignored?
Vladimir Prus wrote:
This essentially disables read watchpoints. What's the point in first
implementing read watchpoints in a target, and then disabling them completely
in gdb? Should be then disallow "read watchpoint" packet in the remote
protocol?
I wouldn't say it disables read watchpoints, since the functionality GDB
provides is exactly that; read watchpoints. The difference is that it
uses access watchpoints to accomplish this, because a large set of targets
does not support true read watchpoints.
Which is more important; providing the functionality, or providing some
functionality for some targets, but using hardware read watchpoints instead
of hardware access watchpoints?
~j