Why no hwatch command in gdb ?

[Pedro Alves]

On Thursday 10 March 2011 11:34:21, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> I think there was a recent change that made us insert the watchpoint 
> immediately, as a way to check whether we have resources or not.  I don't
> know how much this helps in practice.

I think you're wishful thinking.  I proposed that (*) while reviewing the
PPC ranged watchpoints support as a way of getting rid of the (mostly
broken) watchpoint resources accounting mechanism, but it was
never implemented.

(*) - most probably others have done so too before me.

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Pedro Alves