From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7779 invoked by alias); 11 Nov 2011 17:43:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 7770 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Nov 2011 17:43:09 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:42:56 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6298B2BAF3E; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:42:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id BcJ2IncRsp05; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:42:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2886B2BAF15; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:42:51 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 66099145615; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:42:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:43:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Doug Evans Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] testsuite: Add (extensive) hardware breakpoint testing Message-ID: <20111111174247.GF5390@adacore.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00325.txt.bz2 > >  The consistency of failures between i686-linux-gnu and i686-mingw makes > > me fairly sure that's a bug in x86 support in GDB of some sort rather than > > a problem with my setup -- is that a known bug? > > OOC, have you tried amd64-linux? > {i386,amd64}-linux are important enough targets that I think this > should be fixed for 7.4. Joel? I think we should look at the context as well before making a decision: - Is that a regression? If it's been like that in previous versions, then maybe it's OK for it to fail for another version... - Are hardware breakpoints used much? Probably by the people who debug programs in ROM(/flash?). We should probably try to investigate the problem quickly and determine the extent of the problem. If we think we should fix that for 7.4, and someone is willing to take responsibility for it, then let's make it a high priority item on our list, and not release 7.4 without the fix. -- Joel