[RFC] Unified watchpoints for x86 platforms

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 10:18:37 -0800
> From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com>
> 
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 10:33:52AM -0500, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >   unsigned int HWBP_GET_STATUS (int pid);
> > 
> >   This macro returns the value of the DR6 debug status register from
> >   the inferior.
> > 
> >   In the discussion we had back in September, Mark said that the
> >   status register should be per thread.  Does that mean that we need
> >   an additional argument (int tid?) to pass to HWBP_GET_STATUS?  If
> >   so, how will this argument get into the i386_hwbp_* functions which
> >   will call these macros?
> 
> What is the difference between pid and tid in this case? Can we derive
> tid from pid?

That's what I'd like to know as well.  Anyone?