Confused by watchpoints on remote protocol

[Andreas Schwab]

On Aug 07 2022, Denio, Mike via Gdb wrote:

> The only question I have is that when I type:
> "watch *(uint32_t *)(0x80000018)"
> I get a hardware watch point.
>
> And when I type:
> "watch (uint32_t)ram_table"
> I get a software watch point.

What is ram_table?

> Anyone know why? And how to change it to be always hardware?

Try looking at breakpoint.c:can_use_hardware_watchpoint.

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