On Sep 19,  9:17am, thorpej@wasabisystems.com (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/alpha

Fine I understand. Thanks for the explanation.

christos

| I think it's wrong.  I think that if breakpoint-based stepping is going 
| to happen, then the debugger should KNOW that, and have explicit 
| control over it.
| 
| For example, if the kernel writes over an instruction word, and the 
| debugger doesn't know about it, you have no way to properly disassemble 
| the function you're stepping through.  On the other hand, if the 
| debugger writes over an instruction word, it has a record of it, and 
| can compensate during disassembly.
| 
|          -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
-- End of excerpt from Jason Thorpe