On 26 Jun 2002, at 9:28am, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> The hardware *does not* run in the following way:
>
>  again:
>     is the PC (program counter) at a breakpoint?  if so, <break>
>     run the instruction at the PC
>     goto again;

  That was actually my point.  The OP complained about the debugger having
to insert instructions into the code to implement breakpoints; I was trying
to demonstrate that the alternative would be quite a bit worse.  Sorry if I
did not make that clear.

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