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Re: Patch for gdb5.0; enable hardware watchpoints on UnixWare


> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:21:12 -0800
> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> > Note that I'm working on a unified watchpoint implementation for all
> > ia32 targets, based on the code written for the DJGPP port (see
> > go32-nat.c).  This implementation will allow to watch large areas (up
> > to 16 bytes) and debug register sharing via reference counts (required
> > for watching overlapping areas) on all ia32 platforms.
> > 
> > I am trying to make this happen for v5.1, so perhaps changes like this
> > one should be witheld and not committed, at least until we decide that
> > I'm not living up to my promises.
> 
> Is there a reason for them to be withheld?

I thought what I wrote was the reason.  But if you think it's not a
reason, or that it's not important enough, by all means go ahead and
commit the changes; that's why I said ``perhaps'' in my last sentence.

In case my wording wasn't clear: adding yet another subtly
incompatible watchpoint implementation for ia32 target might be
largely a wasted effort, since they all will have to be revisited
when/if the generalized code is finished and accepted.

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