From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21509 invoked by alias); 29 May 2003 04:36:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 21502 invoked from network); 29 May 2003 04:36:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu) (18.7.21.83) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 May 2003 04:36:00 -0000 Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.72]) by pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h4T4ZsL4012103; Thu, 29 May 2003 00:35:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (MELBOURNE-CITY-STREET.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.86]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h4T4Zn0R027086; Thu, 29 May 2003 00:35:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu (CONTENTS-VNDER-PRESSVRE.MIT.EDU [18.7.16.67]) ) by melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h4T4ZmU8012933; Thu, 29 May 2003 00:35:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from nathanw@localhost) by contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu (8.12.9) id h4T4Zmxi014312; Thu, 29 May 2003 00:35:48 -0400 (EDT) To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: pkoning@equallogic.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: proposed PATCH: make watchpoints work correctly References: <16084.56661.295275.544414@pkoning.dev.equallogic.com> <1659-Wed28May2003225524+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <16085.7093.776115.863795@pkoning.dev.equallogic.com> <5567-Thu29May2003062838+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> From: "Nathan J. Williams" Organization: Wasabi Systems, Inc. Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 04:36:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <5567-Thu29May2003062838+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00525.txt.bz2 "Eli Zaretskii" 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