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> "AC" == Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> 
>  AC> That would be wrong.  An architecture vector should not change 
>  AC> underneath GDB's feet.
> 
>  AC> It may be possible to wrap software single step's predicate in a 
>  AC> function that, like the remote protocol, returns the predicate, or 
>  AC> always false.
> 
> It is my understanding that the predicate is use to conditionally wrap
> the "vector" is it usefull for the predicate to be anything more then
> a boolean in gdbarch?

Sorry, I don't understand your question.

Andrew