From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
To: Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Getting the i386 watchpoints into the taget vector?
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D8B3E13.7000902@ges.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15755.9058.187528.886382@pkoning.dev.equallogic.com>
>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com> writes:
>
>
> Andrew> One thought is to change the config/i386/nm-i386.h macros to
> Andrew> something native specific (native_insert_watchpoint()) and
> Andrew> then have the various native targets (infptrace.c, ...) add
> Andrew> these methods to their target vector.
>
> Andrew> It does restrict things to native targets. A remote target
> Andrew> couldn't make use of GDB's built-in knowledge of watchpoint
> Andrew> registers.
>
> General comment: for an embedded systems developer, it's a constant
> source of bafflement to trip over gdb features that don't work in a
> remote-target setting. It sure would be nice if the number of such
> cases were going down, not up, over time.
Can you document or bug report them? Of hand I can only think of gcore
(and that largely requires someone to perform the leg work).
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-20 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-19 18:57 Andrew Cagney
2002-09-20 0:38 ` Kevin Buettner
2002-09-20 6:32 ` Paul Koning
2002-09-20 8:26 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
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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