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>>>>> "AC" == Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> writes:

 AC> That would be wrong.  An architecture vector should not change 
 AC> underneath GDB's feet.

 AC> It may be possible to wrap software single step's predicate in a 
 AC> function that, like the remote protocol, returns the predicate, or 
 AC> always false.

It is my understanding that the predicate is use to conditionally wrap
the "vector" is it usefull for the predicate to be anything more then
a boolean in gdbarch?

-JX