Alpha: warn_once about broken PAL breakpoints.

A recent changeset (aae12ce9f34c) removed support for
PAL-mode breakpoints in Alpha, since it was awkward
and likely unused.  This patch lets a user know if they
potentially run into this limitation.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/arch/alpha/remote_gdb.cc b/src/arch/alpha/remote_gdb.cc
index 88d453754..06fca92a3 100644
--- a/src/arch/alpha/remote_gdb.cc
+++ b/src/arch/alpha/remote_gdb.cc
@@ -314,3 +314,11 @@ RemoteGDB::write(Addr vaddr, size_t size, const char *data)
     }
 }
 
+
+bool
+RemoteGDB::insertHardBreak(Addr addr, size_t len)
+{
+    warn_once("Breakpoints do not work in Alpha PAL mode.\n"
+              "      See PCEventQueue::doService() in cpu/pc_event.cc.\n");
+    return BaseRemoteGDB::insertHardBreak(addr, len);
+}
diff --git a/src/arch/alpha/remote_gdb.hh b/src/arch/alpha/remote_gdb.hh
index b7aef5f64..7223fea55 100644
--- a/src/arch/alpha/remote_gdb.hh
+++ b/src/arch/alpha/remote_gdb.hh
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ class RemoteGDB : public BaseRemoteGDB
     bool acc(Addr addr, size_t len);
     bool write(Addr addr, size_t size, const char *data);
 
+    virtual bool insertHardBreak(Addr addr, size_t len);
+
   public:
     RemoteGDB(System *system, ThreadContext *context);
 };