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Re: [patch 2/3] Implement support for PowerPC BookE ranged watchpoints


> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:31:57 +0000
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
>  Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
>  Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
>  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > So that's way I created a target_insert_ranged_watchpoint. The other
> > option would be to add a flag to target_insert_watchpoint...
> 
> It appears to me that if there should be a new kind of way to
> insert watchpoints, it should be to allow setting watchpoints
> that only work if the accesses are aligned

What would be the use-cases where such behavior would be needed?


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