Debugger watchpoints in UNIX ?

[jim frost]

guy at 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 at saber.com