Re: [patch]: inform user that a watchpoint is hit

[Chandru <chandru@in.ibm.com>]

Chandru wrote:
>>  
> Hello Jan and Doug,
>
> Thanks for your mails. I today downloaded gdb-6.6 and 
> gdb-6.8.50.20090824.
> gdb-6.6 outputs the messages as follows when the program is restarted
>
>
> Program exited normally.
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /home/chandru/rawatch
> Hardware read watchpoint 2: value1
> Hardware access (read/write) watchpoint 3: value1
> Hardware read watchpoint 2: value1
> Hardware access (read/write) watchpoint 3: value1
> Hardware read watchpoint 2: value1
> Hardware access (read/write) watchpoint 3: value1
>
> Breakpoint 1, main () at rawatch.c:20
> 20          value1 =3;
> (gdb)
>
>
>
> whereas gdb-6.8.50.20090824 doesn't.
>
> Program exited normally.
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /home/chandru/rawatch
>
> Breakpoint 1, main () at rawatch.c:20
> 20          value1 =3;
> (gdb)
>
>
>
> It is not the case that the read or access watchpoints are not being hit.
> Just the messages like 'Hardware read watchpoint 2: value1' and
> 'Hardware access (read/write) watchpoint 3: value1'  are not shown
> on the screen when the program is restarted and the condition
>
> if (breakpoint_enabled (b))
>      mention(b);
>
>
> only helped to see those messages. It is only the first occurrence of the
> watchpoints that the messages don't get displayed for. We could see the
> messages for later occurrences of the watchpoints on value1. Hence this
> is just a cosmetic issue and doesn't look like a architecture or a kernel
> specific issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Chandru
>
Hello Jan/Doug,

does this make sense or we need to do nothing over here ?,

Thanks,
Chandru