Re: gdb hardware-assisted watchpoints

2013-05-06 Thread Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
Mark Kettenis writes: >> From: j...@wxcvbn.org (=?utf-8?Q?J=C3=A9r=C3=A9mie_Courr=C3=A8ges-Anglas?=) >> Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 20:37:25 +0200 >> >> Hi, >> >> the lack of hardware-assisted breakpoints support makes the use of >> `watch' painful in gdb. >> >> Has work already been done on this f

Re: gdb hardware-assisted watchpoints

2013-05-05 Thread Mark Kettenis
> From: j...@wxcvbn.org (=?utf-8?Q?J=C3=A9r=C3=A9mie_Courr=C3=A8ges-Anglas?=) > Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 20:37:25 +0200 > > Hi, > > the lack of hardware-assisted breakpoints support makes the use of > `watch' painful in gdb. > > Has work already been done on this front? If not, are there particul

gdb hardware-assisted watchpoints

2013-05-05 Thread Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
Hi, the lack of hardware-assisted breakpoints support makes the use of `watch' painful in gdb. Has work already been done on this front? If not, are there particular reasons that would make it unsuitable / unlikely to be integrated into base? I'm currently trying to see what's needed to impleme