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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:04:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] [RFC] Add the watch-range command
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To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
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> From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
>         Joel Brobecker
>  <brobecker@adacore.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:56:26 -0200
> 
> --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> @@ -18720,19 +18720,26 @@ the @code{watch} command (@pxref{Set Watchpoints}), as in:
>  @end smallexample
>  
>  A @dfn{ranged watchpoint} watches a contiguous range of addresses.
> -@value{GDBN} automatically creates a ranged watchpoint when asked to watch
> -an array or struct of known size and there are enough hardware registers
> -available.  You can create an artificial array to watch an arbitrary memory
> -region using one of the following commands (@pxref{Expressions}):
> -
> -@smallexample
> -(@value{GDBP}) watch *((char *) @var{ADDRESS})@@@var{LENGTH}
> -(@value{GDBP}) watch @{char[@var{LENGTH}]@} @var{ADDRESS}
> -@end smallexample

Why remove this example?  I think it's useful.

> +Set a hardware watchpoint for an address range.
> +The watchpoint will stop execution of your program whenever the inferior
> +writes, reads, or accesses (respectively for watch-range, awatch-range
> +and rwatch-range) any address within the specified range.

Suggest to say that the range is inclusive.

Okay with those changes.

Thanks.