On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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...
> 
> I'll chime in..  I'd be quite willing to bring something like this in,
> assuming it was done reasonably cleanly.  It shouldn't be too hard to do it
> without imparing portability across cpu/arch types.
> 
> I think this would be quite useful, especially if gdb could be made aware
> of it too.

I think this would be great too, but I have a concern. Not all CPUs (x86)
support this; make ABSOLUTELY sure it doesn't do this kind of thing on
hardware which doesn't support it, please!

> 
> >     - Dave Rivers -
> 
> Cheers,
> -Peter
> --
> Peter Wemm - pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; pe...@netplex.com.au
> 
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