Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 12:13:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, brdean@unx.sas.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907031212370.34349-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <19990703142624.ED06C64@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:
> Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there any interest in supporting something like this in FreeBSD?
> > > I'm volunteering to spend some cycles on this, but I don't want to go
> > > to the effort if there's little chance that the work would be
> > > integrated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Brian
> > > --
> > > Brian Dean SAS Institute Inc brdean@unx.sas.com
> > >
> >
> >
> > Brian -
> >
> > Scan through the mail archives - I brought this up about this
> > time last year, I think...
> >
> > There were several responses - some people may be willing to
> > assist...
>
> I'll chime in.. I'd be quite willing to bring something like this in,
> assuming it was done reasonably cleanly. It shouldn't be too hard to do it
> without imparing portability across cpu/arch types.
>
> I think this would be quite useful, especially if gdb could be made aware
> of it too.
I think this would be great too, but I have a concern. Not all CPUs (x86)
support this; make ABSOLUTELY sure it doesn't do this kind of thing on
hardware which doesn't support it, please!
>
> > - Dave Rivers -
>
> Cheers,
> -Peter
> --
> Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
>
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