Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>]

> Shorter term than you may think :)  My plan now is something like this:
>   - Cleanup patches, as posted
>   - Internal support for multiple locations per breakpoint
>   - Adapt watchpoints to use the multiple locations support, which will
>     be rather cleaner than what we have now.
>   - Then move on to fun stuff with breakpoints.
>
> Could you give me a pointer to the watchpoint changes you're talking
> about?  I don't recall them.

Start with: [rfc;rfa:breakpoint] Pass full breakpoint/watchpoint count 
to target
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gdb&pr=967

which should give you enough to find the discussion.  My "memory" of the 
thread is that stalled when it became apparent that a two level 
watchpoint mechanism that created a canonical(1) list of physical watch 
regions was going to be needed.

Andrew

(1) Canonical, now there's an interesting word.