On Wednesday 26 June 2002 h:57, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> Tom Rauschenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Wednesday 26 June 2002 h:43, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> > > You know, of course, that most debuggers allow you to catch reads and
> > > writes to a certain memory location already, right?
> >
> > Sure, but they usually do it by inserting an illegal instruction at the
> > beginning of each statement boundary
>
> You might be referring to sequence points.
Yes, "sequence point" is the name I could remember.
>
> While I don't deny that some debuggers might implement this this way
> (<shudder>), let's focus on a specific example: gdb on Linux on an x86
> box. In this case, newer versions of gdb do take advantage of
> hardware watchpoints, which allows a debugged program to run at full
> speed.
>
> Regards,
>
> --kevin
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