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Re: [rfc, gdbserver] Support hardware watchpoints on ARM
- From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- To: pedro at codesourcery dot com (Pedro Alves)
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, patches at linaro dot org
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:26:30 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [rfc, gdbserver] Support hardware watchpoints on ARM
Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 September 2011 14:57:15, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > Well, since this is global system property that is actually only
> > queried once and then returned from a cache, adding a LWP argument
> > would appear to be somewhat misleading ...
>
> We can always just document what the argument means :-) In this
> case, it'd serve as currently stopped LWP to run ptrace on in case
> the cache is not set yet.
That still seems odd to me :-) I'd rather make the caching explicit,
e.g. by retrieving the information once in arm_arch_setup and then
just always using it.
Bye,
Ulrich
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Dr. Ulrich Weigand
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