From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22389 invoked by alias); 26 Jun 2007 17:58:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 22379 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jun 2007 17:58:48 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:58:38 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737449829B; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:58:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 411CE9829A; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:58:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I3FIi-000257-Bk; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:58:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:58:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Luis Machado Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Threaded watchpoints Message-ID: <20070626175804.GA7968@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Luis Machado , gdb@sourceware.org References: <1182880191.4362.21.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1182880191.4362.21.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-06/txt/msg00309.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:49:51PM -0300, Luis Machado wrote: > Jeff Johnston wrote a considerable patch that would improve this on some > architectures (i386, ia64, amd64 and s390). Through the discussion, the > patch was updated a few times, but there wasn't a final conclusion to > this problem and i couldn't find any other posts from Jeff Johnston > since those days. Was there any conclusion on this? Some bits of Jeff's > patch were included upstream, but most of the patch was not. > > I'm looking forward to start working on this problem for ppc32 > architecture, in order to be able to use per-thread watchpoints, and i'd > like to clarify where we are sitting at regarding this problem. > > Has any improvement been made to GDB? What's the current support for > this? Red Hat has an updated patch for this in their RPMs. I've asked for someone to submit it, I think, since I didn't want to reinvent it. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery