Re: proposed PATCH: make watchpoints work correctly

Nathan J. Williams
2003-05-29T04:36:01Z

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

> That's strange: I thought hardware-assisted watchpoints were supported
> for all native x86 platforms. Mark, could you please help us out
> here? is NetBSD an exception?

NetBSD/i386 doesn't provide a way for software to use the x86-series
hardware debug registers, so gdb doesn't use them there.
(I had a look at this once, and didn't get very far; it's just as well
for me, because my problem turned out to be garbage core dumps rather
than garbage meory).

- Nathan