From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4984 invoked by alias); 18 Dec 2007 00:59:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 4974 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Dec 2007 00:59:46 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (HELO nf-out-0910.google.com) (64.233.182.186) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:59:42 +0000 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b11so1408943nfh.48 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:59:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.159.7 with SMTP id h7mr9433750hue.17.1197939579121; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:59:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.132.4 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:59:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:59:00 -0000 From: "Siva Velusamy" To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: rwatchpoint configuration In-Reply-To: <20071218004823.GA30270@caradoc.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071218004823.GA30270@caradoc.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00128.txt.bz2 > > I don't think there is an appropriate configuration knob at present. > > Eli, I think I remember you discussing this with someone else, a year > or two ago; do you remember the reasoning? If the watchpoint's type > is "only trigger on reads", then core GDB assuming it triggers on all > accesses seems problematic to me. > In this thread: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2005-11/msg00251.html Eli mentions that "If someone finds a way to announce a read watchpoint when the value changed on a target that supports that, without losing support for read watchpoints on x86 (which is by far the most popular platform these days), I'll gladly agree to such a change" So I guess the question really is if there has been an update to this. -Siva