From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2294 invoked by alias); 10 Dec 2005 04:47:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 2286 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Dec 2005 04:47:56 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 04:47:55 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EkweG-0008Hj-J0; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:47:52 -0500 Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:12:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Wu Zhou Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl Subject: Re: [RFC] GDB patches for hw watchpoints - revised Message-ID: <20051210044752.GA30979@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Wu Zhou , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl References: <20051206202848.GA9568@nevyn.them.org> <20051209050132.GA5325@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-12/txt/msg00194.txt.bz2 On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 12:46:36PM +0800, Wu Zhou wrote: > On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 10:25:33AM +0800, Wu Zhou wrote: > > > Currently what stored in the siginfo.si_addr is the address of next > > > instruction. Anton sent me a patch to change that to the data address > > > instead. I am now playing with the patched kernel. > > > > > > BTW. It seems that to_stopped_data_address is only used in rwatch and > > > awatch, which is not that frequently used as watch itself. So may we > > > postpone its implementation till some later time? > > > > No, let's get it right the first time. rwatch is extremely valuable, > > and it sounds like you're having to play with ABI changes to get it to > > work. > > OK. I will try to make it right the first time. :-) > > And can you elaborate on the statement that I am having to play with ABI > changes to get it to work? It seems that you must find something > noticeable, right? If so, please point out. Thanks. I was just talking about Anton's kernel patch. If you're still changing the kernel to make it work, it's not quite done yet. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC