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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Debugger watchpoints in UNIX ?
Keywords: debug watchpoint
Message-ID: <1990Mar9.150621.9381@world.std.com>
Date: 9 Mar 90 15:06:21 GMT
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guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>Some processors (e.g., the 80386) have hardware to watch some (generally
>small) number of locations; some debuggers on UNIX for those processors
>may use them. 

SunOS ptrace() for the Sun 386i supports this.  Whether or not anyone
actually makes use of it is another thing entirely....

jim frost
saber software
jimf@saber.com