On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 04:53:30PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote:
> While PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG ptrace flag in PowerPC accepts
> PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT mode of breakpoint, the same is not intimated to the
> user-space debuggers (like GDB) who may want to use it. Hence we introduce a
> new PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_EXACT flag which will be populated on the
> "features" member of "struct ppc_debug_info" to advertise support for the
> same on Book3E PowerPC processors.
Hrm. I had assumed the reason there wasn't a feature bit for EXACT
originally was that EXACT breakpoints were *always* supposed to be
supported by the new interface.
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