Re: gdb.base/watchpoint-solib.exp

[Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>]

> From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
> Date:  Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:48:39 +0400
> 
> Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 
> > Hi Vladimir,
> > 
> > The watchpoint-solib.exp test seems to assume hardware watchpoints:
> > 
> >   gdb_test "watch g" "Hardware watchpoint 3: g" "set watchpoint on g"
> > 
> > Is this intentional, or should this be changed to accept "normal"
> > software watchpoints too?
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> this test was added by
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gdb.patches/37556 and that
> commits changes the way the memory locations to watch are stored and
> handled for watchpoint. Since software watchpoints do not actually
> have any memory locations to watch, I suspect that the crash this
> test is supposed to guard against did not happen with software
> watchpoints.

Ah, if you want to explicity test hardware watchpoints, perhaps we
should test that the target supports them and skip the test otherwise.

> Are you on a target with no hardware breakpoints?

Yes I am.  OpenBSD doesn't support hardware watchpoints on any of its
platforms.  But even many Linux targets don't support hardware
watchpoints.