info watch command

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:36:22AM -0500, raja.saleru@iap-online.com wrote:
> by default, it will be hardware watchpoint. for the "info watch" command,
> only for watch it is showing as "hw watchpoint". however why it is not
> differentiated for rwatch as "read watchpoint" "hw read watchpoint" ?

Because all read and access watchpoints are hardware; it is not
practical to do either in software.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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