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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Getting the i386 watchpoints into the taget vector?
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D8A8094.5080908@ges.redhat.com> (raw)

Hello,

With the watchpoint interface made part of the target vector, its time 
to think about how the i386 case should be handled.  Instead of using a 
system interface, the i386 manipulates the hardware watchpoint registers 
directly.  For want of a better name, I'll call this ``native watchpoints''.

One thought is to change the config/i386/nm-i386.h macros to something 
native specific (native_insert_watchpoint()) and then have the various 
native targets (infptrace.c, ...) add these methods to their target vector.

It does restrict things to native targets.  A remote target couldn't 
make use of GDB's built-in knowledge of watchpoint registers.

Another (less well thought out) idea, is for the target stack, to fall 
back to the ``native watchpoint'' mechanism when the [remote] target 
doesn't support watchpoints. I think this would mean putting the 
``native watchpoint'' methods in the architecture vector where the 
target vector code could call it.

Thoughts?  Better ideas?

Andrew


             reply	other threads:[~2002-09-20  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-19 18:57 Andrew Cagney [this message]
2002-09-20  0:38 ` Kevin Buettner
2002-09-20  6:32 ` Paul Koning
2002-09-20  8:26   ` Andrew Cagney
2002-09-20 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-20 16:51   ` Andrew Cagney
2002-09-21  1:32     ` Eli Zaretskii

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