From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com>
Cc: nathan@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: adjust watchpoint testing
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 03:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u7j3k4dlo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606140914210.2888@localhost.localdomain> (message from Wu Zhou on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:21:52 +0800 (CST))
> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:21:52 +0800 (CST)
> From: Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com>
> cc: nathan@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > I don't think there's any practical way to detect the number of
> > supported watchpoints. It depends on the particulars of the watched
> > regions, and different targets have different peculiarities. For
> > example, x86 can set an unlimited number of watchpoints provided that
> > they watch the same address and length.
>
> What about adding a gdbarch specific member function to do this?
What would that function do? I thought I explained that the question
``how many watchpoints can the target give us'' has no meaningful
answer, unless you also supply the specific mix of addresses and sizes
of the regions you wish to watch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-14 3:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-09 20:58 Nathan Sidwell
2006-06-12 16:30 ` Wu Zhou
2006-06-12 16:40 ` Nathan Sidwell
2006-06-13 6:12 ` Wu Zhou
2006-06-13 6:23 ` Nathan Sidwell
2006-06-13 6:43 ` Wu Zhou
2006-06-13 7:07 ` Nathan Sidwell
2006-06-13 10:20 ` Wu Zhou
2006-06-13 10:25 ` Nathan Sidwell
2006-06-13 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-14 1:21 ` Wu Zhou
2006-06-14 2:52 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-14 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-06-13 13:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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