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Re: read watchpoints ignored?
> From: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:42:20 +0300
> Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>,
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> gdb@sources.redhat.com
>
> This essentially disables read watchpoints. What's the point in first
> implementing read watchpoints in a target, and then disabling them completely
> in gdb?
I agree, this is not a good solution.
> I don't yet have specific *real-world* examples, but using "is the value
> different from the value last time we stopped" as a heuristic to decide if we
> hit write watchpoint or read watchpoint seems fragile.
It is a vast improvement on what we had before.