On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > That way we expose more of the hardware to userland; and the thing > that's most important to me is that GDB not have to know if it's on a > MIPS32 or an R4650 when determining how watchpoints work. > IWatch/DWatch are two particular watchpoints or distinguished by access > type? I.E. what would GDB need to know to know which it is setting? The watchpoints would always be interfaced the same way, regardless of the underlying implementation, of course. For the IWatch/DWatch, I'd assign their numbers somehow (e.g. IWatch is watchpoint #0 and DWatch is #1, following the sequence used for their CP0 register numbers). A user such as GDB would have to determine the capabilities of all watchpoints as I described and would discover that watchpoint #0 only accepts instruction fetch events and watchpoint #1 only accepts data read/write ones. This way we can accept an arbitrary underlying implementation. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
