From ea5d7a9987534b6d393a523becd3f8ce5e967641 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pierre Muller <muller@sourceware.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:17:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * infcmd.c (post_create_inferior): Call
breakpoint_re_set after target is pushed for watchpoint promotion to
hardware watchpoint.
---
gdb/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
gdb/infcmd.c | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 692222c1702..3f9149625c5 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-06-17 Pierre Muller <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
+ Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
+
+ * infcmd.c (post_create_inferior): Call breakpoint_re_set after target
+ is pushed for watchpoint promotion to hardware watchpoint.
+
2009-06-16 Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
* dwarf2read.c (dwarf_info_section, dwarf_abbrev_section)
diff --git a/gdb/infcmd.c b/gdb/infcmd.c
index 9329558abc8..422993f1913 100644
--- a/gdb/infcmd.c
+++ b/gdb/infcmd.c
@@ -421,6 +421,18 @@ post_create_inferior (struct target_ops *target, int from_tty)
#endif
}
+ /* If the user sets watchpoints before execution having started,
+ then she gets software watchpoints, because GDB can't know which
+ target will end up being pushed, or if it supports hardware
+ watchpoints or not. breakpoint_re_set takes care of promoting
+ watchpoints to hardware watchpoints if possible, however, if this
+ new inferior doesn't load shared libraries or we don't pull in
+ symbols from any other source on this target/arch,
+ breakpoint_re_set is never called. Call it now so that software
+ watchpoints get a chance to be promoted to hardware watchpoints
+ if the now pushed target supports hardware watchpoints. */
+ breakpoint_re_set ();
+
observer_notify_inferior_created (target, from_tty);
}
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