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Re: [RFC] Unified watchpoints for x86 platforms
- To: hjl at valinux dot com
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Unified watchpoints for x86 platforms
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:28:25 -0500 (EST)
- CC: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 10:18:37 -0800
> From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com>
>
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 10:33:52AM -0500, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > unsigned int HWBP_GET_STATUS (int pid);
> >
> > This macro returns the value of the DR6 debug status register from
> > the inferior.
> >
> > In the discussion we had back in September, Mark said that the
> > status register should be per thread. Does that mean that we need
> > an additional argument (int tid?) to pass to HWBP_GET_STATUS? If
> > so, how will this argument get into the i386_hwbp_* functions which
> > will call these macros?
>
> What is the difference between pid and tid in this case? Can we derive
> tid from pid?
That's what I'd like to know as well. Anyone?