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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Wrong hw_watchpoint_used_count? (multiple location  watchpoints)
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100108130858.GF29312@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zl4oah5f.fsf@gnu.org>

> That _is_ the design.  However, GDB does not tell enough to the target
> for the target to give an accurate answer.  And what's more, some
> questions cannot be answered without actually trying to call ptrace or
> its equivalents, and getting its ``opinion''.  Unless we mirror all
> the necessary information on the target level that is (which is what
> x86 does).

Hmmm, so you're saying that the situation on x86 is because we cannot
know in advance how many watchpoints the CPU provides?

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-08 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-08  7:57 Joel Brobecker
2010-01-08  9:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-08 10:30   ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-08 12:11     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-08 12:26       ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-08 13:00         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-08 13:09           ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2010-01-08 16:49             ` Eli Zaretskii

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