[fpc-devel] bounty: FPC based debugger

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Sven Barth schrieb:

> But the debugger can ask the OS to write protect a page or to enable a 
> page guard (which triggers on write access) and then the corresponding 
> signal/exception can be catched. This reduces the checks necessary from 
> the complete process memory down to only the page size.
> 
> Note: I don't know whether it's implemented like that in any debugger, 
> this is just a theory of mine.

Every (reasonable) OS provides such features in its debug API. Available 
support depends on the actual hardware, of course.

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