From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16631 invoked by alias); 4 May 2004 23:52:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16622 invoked from network); 4 May 2004 23:52:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 May 2004 23:52:52 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.32 #1 (Debian)) id 1BL9iH-00065H-7s; Tue, 04 May 2004 19:52:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 23:52:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Orjan Friberg Cc: Eli Zaretskii , kettenis@chello.nl, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Display of read/access watchpoints when HAVE_NONSTEPPABLE_WATCHPOINT Message-ID: <20040504235237.GA23347@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Orjan Friberg , Eli Zaretskii , kettenis@chello.nl, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <407E8CEF.2050007@axis.com> <407FC69A.1000701@axis.com> <1438-Sat17Apr2004112204+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <4083E930.8040005@axis.com> <4087DFB6.1030801@axis.com> <200405012117.i41LHZSR001291@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <40962BF0.3030707@axis.com> <6654-Mon03May2004204832+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <409746BF.7050503@axis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <409746BF.7050503@axis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00125.txt.bz2 On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 09:31:11AM +0200, Orjan Friberg wrote: > Another thing, which may or may not be relevant in this discussion, is > if the remote protocol should be altered. Right now, the > watch/rwatch/awatch part of the stop reply packet when hitting a > watchpoint is not used (except for parsing out the stopped data > address). In addition, it doesn't play nice with multiple watchpoint > hits, since only one of watch/rwatch/awatch is possible. I don't have > any practical suggestion on how to make it more useful though :( . I think this is a separate discussion. It's a general problem of both GDB (breakpoint.c in particular) and also of the remote protocol. I'm avoiding that discussion until I finish a dozen other projects :) -- Daniel Jacobowitz