Re: [mi] watchpoint-scope exec async command

[Bob Rossi <bob at brasko dot net>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:39:44PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>    Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:29:48 +0200
>    From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
>    Bob, could you also try the same program with a software watchpoint,
>    and see if you hit the same bug or not?  If the behavior is different,
>    please show where the GDB execution thread goes a different way and
>    how it avoids the crash.  (Forcing software watchpoints might not be
>    easy.  One way, on a x86 machine, is to watch a region that is more
>    than 16 bytes long.  Another way is to build a hacked version of GDB
>    that uses only software watchpoints.)
> 
> How about "set can-use-hw-watchpoints 0"? ;-)

Seriously, thanks! I was just digesting that paragraph.

Bob Rossi