Re: hbreak.exp: Test hardware breakpoints

Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-09-27T09:58:38Z

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> > Continuing.
> > Couldn't write debug register: No such process.
> > (gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/hbreak.exp: run until function breakpoint
>
> Sorry, I forgot to warn you about this :-( You can't use a native
> i686-linux debugger to do this test, because the i686 native debugger
> defines target_insert_watchpoint et cetera; that message is coming
> from GDB trying to use ptrace, even though it's connected to target
> remote.

Which is obviously a bug -- you should be able to debug a remote
i386-linux-gnu target with an i386-linux-gnu host using an i386-linux-gnu
native debugger if the "target remote" command is at all available,
shouldn't you?

> I'll build a cross debugger and give it a try tonight.

Thanks.

Maciej