Debuggers with data breakpoints (WAS: How long does it take ...)

maniattb@cs.rpi.edu (Bill Maniatty) writes:
>[I wish debuggers had data breakpoints. Interpreters can change
> timing but make it easy to do data watchpoints.]


John Levine writes:
>[With some cooperation from the paging system, it might be portable.]


Some recent work includes:


%A Benjamin Chase
%A Robert Hood
%T Debugging with Lightweight Instrumentation
%J Workshop on Supercomputer Debugging
%D 1991


%A Robert Wahbe
%T Efficient Data Breakpoints
%J Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Architectural
Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-V)
%D October 1992
%P 200-212


%A Robert Wahbe
%A Steven Lucco
%A Susan L. Graham
%T Practical Data Breakpoints: Design and Implementation
%J ACM SIGPLAN '93 Conference on Programming Language Deisn and
Implementation (PLDI)
%C Albuquerque, New Mexico
%D June 1993
%P 1-12


and, blowing my own horn (what, again!?) I also recently revised this
conceptual writeup using [Wahbe 92]'s terminology. It's ideas, but
there's no implementation:


%A David Keppel
%T Fast Data Breakpoints
%R UWCSE 93-04-06
%D April 1993
%I University of Washington
%W anon ftp from `ftp.cs.washington.edu' in `tr' subdir


;-D on ( Read doubled efforts ) Pardo
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