Re: [patch 3/3] [RFC] Add the watch-range command

Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-26T11:04:08Z

> From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
> Joel Brobecker
> <brobecker@adacore.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:56:26 -0200
>
> --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> @@ -18720,19 +18720,26 @@ the @code{watch} command (@pxref{Set Watchpoints}), as in:
> @end smallexample
>
> A @dfn{ranged watchpoint} watches a contiguous range of addresses.
> -@value{GDBN} automatically creates a ranged watchpoint when asked to watch
> -an array or struct of known size and there are enough hardware registers
> -available. You can create an artificial array to watch an arbitrary memory
> -region using one of the following commands (@pxref{Expressions}):
> -
> -@smallexample
> -(@value{GDBP}) watch *((char *) @var{ADDRESS})@@@var{LENGTH}
> -(@value{GDBP}) watch @{char[@var{LENGTH}]@} @var{ADDRESS}
> -@end smallexample

Why remove this example? I think it's useful.

> +Set a hardware watchpoint for an address range.
> +The watchpoint will stop execution of your program whenever the inferior
> +writes, reads, or accesses (respectively for watch-range, awatch-range
> +and rwatch-range) any address within the specified range.

Suggest to say that the range is inclusive.

Okay with those changes.

Thanks.