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

Thiago Jung Bauermann
2010-11-27T13:30:59Z

On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 13:06 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.

Indeed. I'll keep it then.

> > +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.

Ok.

> Okay with those changes.

Thanks!
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Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center