From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 65751 invoked by alias); 6 Jul 2018 02:53:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 65736 invoked by uid 89); 6 Jul 2018 02:53:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:791, motivated, Hardware, watchpoints X-HELO: simark.ca Received: from simark.ca (HELO simark.ca) (158.69.221.121) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:53:56 +0000 Received: from [10.0.0.11] (unknown [192.222.164.54]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by simark.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 32F5D1E529; Thu, 5 Jul 2018 22:53:55 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=simark.ca; s=mail; t=1530845635; bh=wJPoVnNgLEubCmF5YpjhBSRml0txMm6Q/BCbfg01vQQ=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=ajYSi0Fq1pcidvsrF7vtE40/lIZus3RfA+LEvXgZQnF/a0gV72ng1xv1aNm/3ZHz6 cvT1c7dbs7ez5eVMBBiopokVQZxgYDZFj0G9eJSq45Ge3aFnjV7+ka79j5zaK6c1el 0/TGaXpWH0jcXpzEqhgJI7W/3vXxC0MppnpQsyeE= Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb/testsuite: Run test when software watchpoints are used To: Andrew Burgess , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20180704164017.5849-1-andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> From: Simon Marchi Message-ID: Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:53:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180704164017.5849-1-andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2018-07/txt/msg00140.txt.bz2 On 2018-07-04 12:40 PM, Andrew Burgess wrote: > The test gdb.base/watchpoint-reuse-slot.exp can be run when software > watchpoints are in use, we just need to update one test pattern to > look for 'Watchpoint' instead of 'Hardware watchpoint' in one case. > > gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: > > * gdb.base/watchpoint-reuse-slot.exp: Test can be run using > software watchpoints, we just need to update a test pattern in one > place. Hi Andrew, Reading the test description, it seems like it exists specifically to check the hardware watchpoint mechanisms of the targets. Did you find it would also be useful to run it with software watchpoints? What was the idea that motivated to do this change in the first place? Simon