>
> Hi,
>
> After recently debugging a very elusive memory overwrite problem that
> I was only able to find by setting up a debugger watch point, and
> suffering through the slowness that this introduced, I began reading
> up on the ix86 support for hardware watch points. Using this facility
> of the chip would require OS support, and specifically, loading the
> debug registers at context switch time. Also, the 'ptrace' system
> call could easily be extended to provide an interface for doing this
> from user code.
>
> Is there any interest in supporting something like this in FreeBSD?
> I'm volunteering to spend some cycles on this, but I don't want to go
> to the effort if there's little chance that the work would be
> integrated.
>
> Thanks,
> -Brian
> --
> Brian Dean SAS Institute Inc brd...@unx.sas.com
>
Brian -
Scan through the mail archives - I brought this up about this
time last year, I think...
There were several responses - some people may be willing to
assist...
- Dave Rivers -
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