From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: john@Calva.COM
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Hardware watchpoints for UnixWare; based on snapshot 20010627
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 05:32:00 -0000
Message-id: <3277-Fri29Jun2001152615+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00516.html

> From: "John Hughes" <john@Calva.COM>
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:14:18 +0200
> 
> The problem is that
> 
> 1. the "i386v42mp-nat.c" (what a foul name!) code needs access to 
>    the debug registers stored in the "pr_family" part of the 
>    prstatus.pr_lwp structure, which is only known to procfs.c
> 
> 2. It also needs to issue a PCSDBREG command via procfs.
> 
> So it needs some horrid special access to stuff only procfs knows.

Sounds like procfs.c should add a few functions that would allow to
access this information.