On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 22:25:18 +0200
Matthias Welwarsky <matth...@welwarsky.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm very much wondering if this feature is worth maintaining. Is it
> so useful that it's worth the considerable additional complexity for
> keeping the caches coherent? Flushing the caches is a very invasive
> action by a debugger and will considerably change the context under
> debug. If there isn't a compelling argument to keep it I'm much more
> in favor of removing it completely instead of trying fixing it.

I do think it is useful and should be kept / fixed. There are
situations where the available hardware breakpoints are not sufficient
and a fallback to software breakpoints is required - even if it is an
invasice operation, it is better than not being able to debug in that
situation.

cu
Michael

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