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Re: Why no hwatch command in gdb ?

From: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>
To: gdb at sourceware dot org
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, robertsong dot japan at gmail dot com
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:27:03 +0000
Subject: Re: Why no hwatch command in gdb ?
References: <AANLkTimsE5nNEZ=EKo1wPs0BW9dNxdvVyu_5Fucts5K8@mail.gmail.com> <E1Pxe0v-000453-AA@fencepost.gnu.org> <20110310113421.GV19402@adacore.com>

On Thursday 10 March 2011 11:34:21, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> I think there was a recent change that made us insert the watchpoint 
> immediately, as a way to check whether we have resources or not.  I don't
> know how much this helps in practice.

I think you're wishful thinking.  I proposed that (*) while reviewing the
PPC ranged watchpoints support as a way of getting rid of the (mostly
broken) watchpoint resources accounting mechanism, but it was
never implemented.

(*) - most probably others have done so too before me.

-- 
Pedro Alves

References:
- Why no hwatch command in gdb ?
  - From: robert song
- Re: Why no hwatch command in gdb ?
  - From: Eli Zaretskii
- Re: Why no hwatch command in gdb ?
  - From: Joel Brobecker

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