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| author | Jim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com> | 1993-10-02 20:55:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com> | 1993-10-02 20:55:34 +0000 |
| commit | e05fe481fa762c2be12cdaa060f43550079ce9e4 (patch) | |
| tree | d091a0ac570be6f682db0b5dfc69a2e4a607f14e /gdb | |
| parent | 48ee0757411a3a64bca9534f7930955105b8db15 (diff) | |
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* TODO: Don't suggest doing fast watchpoints by stepping a line
at a time. That would be really hairy and still not fast enough.
Do suggest debug registers and page table diddling.
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2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 67df29d..58f3bac 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +Sat Oct 2 15:50:41 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com) + + * TODO: Don't suggest doing fast watchpoints by stepping a line + at a time. That would be really hairy and still not fast enough. + Do suggest debug registers and page table diddling. + Fri Oct 1 14:54:46 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com) * printcmd.c (do_examine): Make meaning of 'h', 'w', and 'g' not @@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ Breakpoints should not be inserted and deleted all the time. Only the one(s) there should be removed when we have to step over one. Support breakpoints that don't have to be removed to step over them. -Speed up watchpoints by not single-stepping them, but do something -faster like single-line execution. Speed them up tremendously on -machines that have watchpoint registers. +Speed up watchpoints by using debug registers, page table diddling (on +SunOS4, can call mprotect() in the inferior; on other machines can do +something simpler), etc. Update gdbint.texinfo to include doc on the directory structure and the various tricks of building gdb. |