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From: sumner@metrowerks.com (Joel Sumner)
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.codewarrior
Subject: Re: System memory
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 97 17:51:12 GMT
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In article <01bca6a7$43e59580$adbf43ce@wkwerner>, "Wayne K. Werner" <wkwerner@con2.com> wrote:
>  I am unaware of whether
>watchpoints are supported by CW.  Unless they are supported by the
>hardware, as well as the debugger, they cause MAJOR hits to the speed of
>the code under the debugger.  Often that is acceptable, especialy when
>tracking down a nasty memory corruption problem.

The R3000 on the PlayStation does have watchpoint support in hardware, however 
it is not available in the Net Yaroze (the HSS protocol doesn't provide the 
hooks to use it). 

-Joel

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