Re: [patch/rfc] Eliminate TARGET_HAS_HARDWARE_WATCHPOINTS

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 12:31:23 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> > I'm not sure the mere presence of DR_* automatically means that
> > hardware watchpoints are supported at run time.  I'd prefer to hear
> > that from Mark or someone else who could tell for sure.
> > 
> > In any case, if the above is true, then there should be no problem to
> > write an Autoconf test that would replace
> > TARGET_HAS_HARDWARE_WATCHPOINTS.  As soon as that is posted here, I
> > will withdraw all my objections to removing the old macro in favor of
> > the new mechanism.
> 
> This assumes that we've access to machines to test it on, and the code 
> being modified is even being used / worth retaining.  Resolving both of 
> those takes this from a no-problem task to something best handled 
> separatly, and something that should not block this current patch.

Sorry, the person who wants to submit a patch for inclusion should do
the necessary reasearch required to verify that the patch is doing
TRT.  Saying that this makes an easy job somewhat harder does not
change anything, I'm sure you've requested other contributors to do
the same in the past, and rightly so.