From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Giles Hall <ghall@research.dfci.harvard.edu>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: AMD64 Hardware Watchpoints
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060914151039.GA19945@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45096F70.6040900@research.dfci.harvard.edu>
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:04:16AM -0400, Giles Hall wrote:
> Does gdb 6.4 support hardware watchpoints on AMD64? If it does, why
Yes.
> would gdb still be falling back to software watchpoints? Could it be an
> alignment issue?
You've probably asked it to watch something that can't be watched using
a hardware watchpoint, e.g. wrong size or not in memory. Please post
an example, and then we can see.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-14 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-14 15:04 Giles Hall
2006-09-14 15:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-09-14 17:49 ` preserving gdb symbols Lee
2006-09-14 17:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-14 18:24 ` Michael Snyder
2006-09-14 18:25 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-14 18:06 ` Michael Snyder
2006-09-15 19:56 ` AMD64 Hardware Watchpoints Giles Hall
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