From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 3 9:14:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E0D114EDD for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 09:14:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA35132; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 12:13:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 12:13:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Peter Wemm Cc: Thomas David Rivers , brdean@unx.sas.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points In-Reply-To: <19990703142624.ED06C64@overcee.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > > > > Is there any interest in supporting something like this in FreeBSD? > > > I'm volunteering to spend some cycles on this, but I don't want to go > > > to the effort if there's little chance that the work would be > > > integrated. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > -Brian > > > -- > > > Brian Dean SAS Institute Inc brdean@unx.sas.com > > > > > > > > > Brian - > > > > Scan through the mail archives - I brought this up about this > > time last year, I think... > > > > There were several responses - some people may be willing to > > assist... > > I'll chime in.. I'd be quite willing to bring something like this in, > assuming it was done reasonably cleanly. It shouldn't be too hard to do it > without imparing portability across cpu/arch types. > > I think this would be quite useful, especially if gdb could be made aware > of it too. I think this would be great too, but I have a concern. Not all CPUs (x86) support this; make ABSOLUTELY sure it doesn't do this kind of thing on hardware which doesn't support it, please! > > > - Dave Rivers - > > Cheers, > -Peter > -- > Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message