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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: RFC: Program Breakpoints
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:17:00 -0000
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On Wednesday 25 March 2009 07:57:26, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> These statements are all rather i386-centric. =A0

These were examples, not statements of all-truth.  I mentioned
ppc-linux, and darwin; you meant hardware-single-stepping-centric.

> Especially on targets=20
> that emulate single-stepping it may be impossible to distinguish. =A0GDB
> should not depend on the ability to do so.

If it's impossible to distinguish for some reason, then the target would
still report SIGTRAP-means-all, like today.  When the distinction on the
debug api side is buggy and inconsistent, then GDB is better off
without it.

--=20
Pedro Alves