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Re: Write watchpoints


On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:00:40AM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 1. HAVE_STEPPABLE_WATCHPOINT tells that you can just single-step over the
> watchpoint, while it's set, and it won't fire during single-stepping.
> The macro basically looks at to_have_steppable_watchpoint field in target.
> 2. gdbarch_have_nonsteppable_watchpoint tells that we have to single-step
> over watchpoint, while it's disabled. 
> 
> It appears that you need to arrange for exactly one of those to return true.

Yes, this sounds like a nonsteppable watchpoint.  The default, if
neither of those is set, is for continuable watchpoints - ones we can
continue through once they've been hit.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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