Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:43:59 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] hwbkpt: Hardware breakpoints (was Kwatch) |
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I needed the attached patch on top of the bptest patch for the current > code. Btw, that is a very nice little tester!
I had already made some of those changes (the ones needed to make bptest build with the new hw_breakpoint code). I'll add in the others.
> Below that is a patch to go on top of your current patch, with x86-64 > support. I've only tried a few trivial tests with bptest (including an > 8-byte bp), which worked great. It is a pretty faithful copy of your i386 > changes. I'm still not sure we have all that right, but you might as well > incorporate this into your patch. You should change the x86_64 code in > parallel with any i386 changes we decide on later, and I can test it and > send you any typo fixups or whatnot.
Right. I may update a few comments...
Alan Stern
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