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Re: [RFA] Implement support for PowerPC BookE ranged breakpoints
> From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:59:04 -0200
>
> > > + a Linux kernel version 2.6.34 or later, GDB supports ranged breakpoints,
> > > + which stop execution of the inferior whenever it executes any address
> > > + within the specified range. See the "PowerPC Embedded" section in the
> >
> > "whenever it executes an instruction at any address within the
> > specified range". (You cannot "execute" an address.)
>
> It was an analogy with "read an address" and "write an address", but I
> guess even those expressions are not that good. :-) Fixed.
"Read from an address" and "write to an address" would be better, yes.
> > > + sals_start.sals = (struct symtab_and_line *)
> > > + xmalloc (sizeof (struct symtab_and_line));
> > > + sals_start.nelts = 1;
> >
> > Spaces and TABs mixup alert!
>
> Hum, I couldn't find the mixup. the lines above and below xmalloc need
> to use spaces because they start at column 7. The xmalloc line uses TAB
> since it starts at column 9 (and it doesn't have any spaces only one
> TAB).
Then it's my mixup, sorry. Disregard that comment.