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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: pedro@codesourcery.com (Pedro Alves),
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
	       brobecker@adacore.com (Joel Brobecker)
Subject: Re: RFC: remove gdbarch from struct breakpoint
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ipmuiizd.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201111081718.pA8HInH6022772@d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>	(Ulrich Weigand's message of "Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:18:49 +0100 (CET)")

>>>>> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> writes:

Ulrich> For example, today we could add a breakpoint like:
Ulrich>   break spu.c:123 if var.offset == 123
Ulrich> while currently in PowerPC architecture.  The way this was intended
Ulrich> to work is to set a breakpoint location on spu.c:123 (with a location
Ulrich> architecture of "spu"), while evaluating the condition using
Ulrich> PowerPC architecture settings.

Ok.

Ulrich> Well, in the cases I mentioned above (generated code, stack trampolines)
Ulrich> -- which are rare, but possible, breakpoint targets, especially for
Ulrich> single-step breakpoints -- there is no objfile either.

Yeah, I understand now.

Looking back, I am not certain there is an actual need for this patch.
I am going to see what happens if I just drop it.

If I do drop it, I will still pull in the tracepoint changes, since I
think those are probably good.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-08 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-27 15:21 Tom Tromey
2011-11-07 15:21 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-11-07 16:10   ` Pedro Alves
2011-11-07 16:52     ` Stan Shebs
2011-11-08 16:22     ` Ulrich Weigand
2011-11-08 17:00       ` Tom Tromey
2011-11-08 17:19         ` Ulrich Weigand
2011-11-08 18:10           ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-11-09 18:22             ` Tom Tromey
2011-11-14 16:10             ` FYI: tracepoints and multi-arch (Was: RFC: remove gdbarch from struct breakpoint) Tom Tromey

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