On Saturday, 3 July 1999 at 12:13:55 -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > 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. >>> >>> 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!
I have code which does this, in a debugger which also offers some features which ddb doesn't have. Unfortunately, I trusted it to DDS tapes, with the result that I can't read the latest version. I've retrieved a version on ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/lowbug.tar.gz, but it's out of date in some respects. Still, it might be of use as a basis for new work. I note that the documentation includes a copy of the GPL. I can't recall why; I never placed the debugger under the GPL. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
