[PATCH][2.6] hardware breakpoint fix/support for xmon

Jake Moilanen moilanen at austin.ibm.com
Fri Feb 13 08:26:50 EST 2004


On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 15:13, John H Rose wrote:
> I might be confused, but don't these qualify as hardware watchpoints rather
> than breakpoints?  Regardless, the patch looks good :)

The correct name is "Data Access Breakpoints".  But depending on who or
what you are asking they'll go by different names.  I think it's more of
a AIXism to call them watchpoints.  I was following the xmon naming
convention of calling them hardware breakpoints.

Thanks,
Jake


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