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Re: Write watchpoints
On Thursday 06 March 2008 16:13:25 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:00:40AM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > 1. HAVE_STEPPABLE_WATCHPOINT tells that you can just single-step over the
> > watchpoint, while it's set, and it won't fire during single-stepping.
> > The macro basically looks at to_have_steppable_watchpoint field in target.
> > 2. gdbarch_have_nonsteppable_watchpoint tells that we have to single-step
> > over watchpoint, while it's disabled.
> >
> > It appears that you need to arrange for exactly one of those to return true.
>
> Yes, this sounds like a nonsteppable watchpoint. The default, if
> neither of those is set, is for continuable watchpoints - ones we can
> continue through once they've been hit.
I noticed that HAVE_CONTINUABLE_WATCHPOINT macro has some definitions,
but is never checked. Should we kill it?
- Volodya