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Re: Threaded watchpoints


On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:49:51PM -0300, Luis Machado wrote:
> Jeff Johnston wrote a considerable patch that would improve this on some
> architectures (i386, ia64, amd64 and s390). Through the discussion, the
> patch was updated a few times, but there wasn't a final conclusion to
> this problem and i couldn't find any other posts from Jeff Johnston
> since those days. Was there any conclusion on this? Some bits of Jeff's
> patch were included upstream, but most of the patch was not.
> 
> I'm looking forward to start working on this problem for ppc32
> architecture, in order to be able to use per-thread watchpoints, and i'd
> like to clarify where we are sitting at regarding this problem.
> 
> Has any improvement been made to GDB? What's the current support for
> this?

Red Hat has an updated patch for this in their RPMs.  I've asked for
someone to submit it, I think, since I didn't want to reinvent it.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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