32-bit Thumb-2 breakpoints

Daniel Jacobowitz dan at debian.org
Tue Feb 2 19:50:38 EST 2010


On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:43:22PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Umm, today there were patches posted using hardware support for
> breakpoints / watchpoints.  I've not read through those patches
> yet, but in light of hardware support, do we really need this patch
> anymore?

Yes, it's unrelated.  Hardware breakpoints are a constrained resource,
but we can insert unlimited software breakpoints (and often need to
exceed the hardware breakpoint limit).

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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