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From: Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>
To: ac131313@ges.redhat.com
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Getting the i386 watchpoints into the taget vector?
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15755.9058.187528.886382@pkoning.dev.equallogic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D8A8094.5080908@ges.redhat.com>

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com> writes:

 Andrew> One thought is to change the config/i386/nm-i386.h macros to
 Andrew> something native specific (native_insert_watchpoint()) and
 Andrew> then have the various native targets (infptrace.c, ...) add
 Andrew> these methods to their target vector.

 Andrew> It does restrict things to native targets.  A remote target
 Andrew> couldn't make use of GDB's built-in knowledge of watchpoint
 Andrew> registers.

General comment: for an embedded systems developer, it's a constant
source of bafflement to trip over gdb features that don't work in a
remote-target setting.  It sure would be nice if the number of such
cases were going down, not up, over time.

      paul


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-20 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-19 18:57 Andrew Cagney
2002-09-20  0:38 ` Kevin Buettner
2002-09-20  6:32 ` Paul Koning [this message]
2002-09-20  8:26   ` Andrew Cagney
2002-09-20 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-20 16:51   ` Andrew Cagney
2002-09-21  1:32     ` Eli Zaretskii

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