From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14341 invoked by alias); 20 Sep 2002 13:32:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14333 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2002 13:32:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.equallogic.com) (65.170.102.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Sep 2002 13:32:20 -0000 Received: from cygnus.equallogic.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by cygnus.equallogic.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8KDWJN20919 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:32:19 -0400 Received: from deneb.dev.equallogic.com (deneb.dev.equallogic.com [172.16.1.99]) by cygnus.equallogic.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8KDWIk20910; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:32:18 -0400 Received: from pkoning.dev.equallogic.com.equallogic.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by deneb.dev.equallogic.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8KDWIx29578; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:32:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15755.9058.187528.886382@pkoning.dev.equallogic.com> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:32:00 -0000 From: Paul Koning To: ac131313@ges.redhat.com Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Getting the i386 watchpoints into the taget vector? References: <3D8A8094.5080908@ges.redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00309.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Cagney 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