From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
robertsong.japan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Why no hwatch command in gdb ?
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201103101227.03684.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110310113421.GV19402@adacore.com>
On Thursday 10 March 2011 11:34:21, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> I think there was a recent change that made us insert the watchpoint
> immediately, as a way to check whether we have resources or not. I don't
> know how much this helps in practice.
I think you're wishful thinking. I proposed that (*) while reviewing the
PPC ranged watchpoints support as a way of getting rid of the (mostly
broken) watchpoint resources accounting mechanism, but it was
never implemented.
(*) - most probably others have done so too before me.
--
Pedro Alves
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-10 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-10 7:25 robert song
2011-03-10 8:12 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-10 10:09 ` robert song
2011-03-10 10:34 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-10 11:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-10 11:34 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-03-10 12:27 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2011-03-10 11:55 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-10 14:47 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2011-03-10 12:18 ` robert song
2011-03-10 13:45 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-10 14:47 ` Philippe Waroquiers
2011-03-10 21:04 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-11 7:58 ` Philippe Waroquiers
2011-03-11 17:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2011-03-10 8:23 paawan oza
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