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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Cc: Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe@elis.ugent.be>
Subject: Re: Run until some FPU register has changed
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201111041837.01387.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6C87CB2A-8D2C-4B03-AEBC-7A5A7562864C@elis.ugent.be>

On Friday 04 November 2011 17:55:12, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> 
> On 04 Nov 2011, at 18:47, Thomas Baruchel wrote:
> 
> >  "run until register 0 in FPU has changed"
> 
> The "watch" command also works with registers, so
>   watch $f0
>   c
> 
> should work (replace f0 with the actual name of floating point register 0). You can oif course set watchpoints on all floating point registers, although I don't know how much extra slowdown that will cause.

I assume pretty much negligible compared to watching a single register.
GDB will need to force single-stepping of the target behind the scenes in
both cases, and pulling a single float register out of the target is
already likely pulling them all.

-- 
Pedro Alves


      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-04 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-04 17:04 Recursive call to stepi and "Max user call depth exceeded" Thomas Baruchel
2011-11-04 17:23 ` Pedro Alves
2011-11-04 17:47   ` Run until some FPU register has changed Thomas Baruchel
2011-11-04 17:55     ` Jonas Maebe
2011-11-04 18:37       ` Pedro Alves [this message]

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