Re: [patch 3/4] Fix hw watchpoints #2: reordered / simultaneously hit

Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-17T19:20:06Z

> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:11:39 -0500
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > ??? Why? What's wrong with bitfields that we should avoid them?
>
> It makes access to the field more difficult and require more instructions.

On what architectures will the performance hit be significant enough
to bother?