rwatchpoint configuration

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Tue Dec 18 02:27:00 GMT 2007


On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:59:39PM -0800, Siva Velusamy wrote:
> In this thread:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2005-11/msg00251.html
> 
> Eli mentions that "If someone finds a way to announce a read
> watchpoint when the value changed on a target that supports that,
> without losing support for read watchpoints on x86 (which is by far
> the most popular platform these days), I'll gladly agree to such a
> change"

That sounds like what I was thinking of.

> So I guess the question really is if there has been an update to this.

Not that I know of.  We'd need some sort of way to say "read
watchpoints are not supported, emulate it with an access watchpoint
instead".

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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