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Re: rwatchpoint configuration

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:27:09 -0500
Subject: Re: rwatchpoint configuration
References: <e7dfeff00712171642k477c0069r51e886d80952f34f@mail.gmail.com> <20071218004823.GA30270@caradoc.them.org> <e7dfeff00712171659h47b0b6f3iceed79727ba1803d@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:59:39PM -0800, Siva Velusamy wrote:
> In this thread:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2005-11/msg00251.html
> 
> Eli mentions that "If someone finds a way to announce a read
> watchpoint when the value changed on a target that supports that,
> without losing support for read watchpoints on x86 (which is by far
> the most popular platform these days), I'll gladly agree to such a
> change"

That sounds like what I was thinking of.

> So I guess the question really is if there has been an update to this.

Not that I know of.  We'd need some sort of way to say "read
watchpoints are not supported, emulate it with an access watchpoint
instead".

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

References:
- rwatchpoint configuration
  - From: Siva Velusamy
- Re: rwatchpoint configuration
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: rwatchpoint configuration
  - From: Siva Velusamy

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