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Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 15:13:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection
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> From: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 20:03:24 +0800
> 
>  int
> +default_has_memory_protection (struct gdbarch *gdbarch)
> +{
> +  /* Simply say no.  */
> +  return 0;
> +}

Do most of our supported targets have or don't have memory protection?
How about most native targets?

If a large subset of targets have the protection, it might make more
sense to say YES by default, not NO.