From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, kettenis@science.uva.nl
Subject: Re: [RFC] Possible bug with i386 watchpoints on several targets.
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 23:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1011205094734.5587C@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1858-Fri30Nov2001214802+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il>
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, I wrote:
> The reason that hardware watchpoints are only considered to fire when
> the watched value changes is that hardware watchpoints are treated teh
> same as software watchpoints, and software watchpoints obviously
> cannot fire unless the watched value changes.
>
> I think it is fundamentally wrong to treat hardware and software
> watchpoints in a similar way. I think hardware watchpoints should be
> treated like read and access watchpoints, not like software
> watchpoints. If others (mainly Michael Snyder) agree, I will submit a
> patch that will make that change, and will also solve this particular
> problem raised by Pierre.
Michael, did you read this part of my message? If so, do you agree with
the principle? If you do, I'd like to write a patch that will fix this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-05 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <4.2.0.58.20011121124943.00a4a288@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
[not found] ` <1190-Wed21Nov2001202555+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il>
2001-11-30 7:18 ` Bug with watchpoints on Linux Pierre Muller
2001-11-21 16:19 ` Pierre Muller
2001-11-21 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-11-21 17:07 ` [RFC] Possible bug with i386 watchpoints on several targets Pierre Muller
2001-11-30 8:06 ` Pierre Muller
2001-11-30 11:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-11-23 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-12-03 1:33 ` Pierre Muller
2001-12-03 3:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-12-04 4:09 ` Pierre Muller
2001-12-04 23:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2001-12-05 1:31 ` Pierre Muller
2001-12-05 3:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-12-05 3:55 ` Pierre Muller
2001-11-30 7:45 ` Bug with watchpoints on Linux Eli Zaretskii
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