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Re: [PATCH]: Make Linux use the new unified x86 watchpoint support
- To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Make Linux use the new unified x86 watchpoint support
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 11:29:07 +0200 (IST)
- cc: kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > I'm guessing that this call goes back to the implementation for
> > Sparclite, which uses this call to produce a side effect (to be able
> > to step over the instruction which caused the watchpoint to trigger),
> > see config/sparc/tm-sparclite.h. Since this seems to be the only
> > platform which needs a side effect, and since we already have an
> > equivalent mechanism for doing the same, with the HAVE_*_WATCHPOINT
> > macros, I think this call can be removed.
>
> I'd like to see it removed, but I'm chicken. ;-)
What do others think about removing this call to STOPPED_BY_WATCHPOINT?
Andrew?