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eliminate deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint. what's left.
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 18:46:38 +0100
- Subject: eliminate deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint. what's left.
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Hey,
I'm working on a patch that converts software single-step breakpoints
to real breakpoints. It's largely done, but needs a bit of cleaning up
before I'll post it. One issue is that software single-step breakpoints
were implemented on top of deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint. They no
longer are after my patch, but we're still left with some ugly code in
breakpoint.c related to deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoints on top of other
breakpoints that I'd like to eliminate completely, but that can only
be done once all users of deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint are either converted
to some more modern mechanism, or eliminated.
Before I go spend some effort blindly trying to do these remaining
conversions, I thought I'd run them through the list first, in case some
of this code can be considered dead already, or in case someone can
lend a hand (which would be awesome).
The remaining users are:
procfs.c: dbx_link_bpt = deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint (target_gdbarch (), NULL,
This is only compiled if SYS_syssgi is defined, which I believe means
MIPS IRIX. Do we still care about MIPS IRIX?
solib-irix.c: base_breakpoint = deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint (target_gdbarch (),
This could/should probably be converted to use create_solib_event_breakpoint.
Though see above.
rs6000-nat.c: bp = deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint (gdbarch, NULL, DUMMY_INSN_ADDR);
This is AIX code. Looks like this can easily be converted to a momentary breakpoint?
AFAIR, I have no way to test either AIX or IRIX.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves