From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10959 invoked by alias); 14 Sep 2006 15:10:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 10947 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Sep 2006 15:10:46 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:10:43 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1GNsrQ-0005C3-L6; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:10:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:10:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Giles Hall Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: AMD64 Hardware Watchpoints Message-ID: <20060914151039.GA19945@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Giles Hall , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <45096F70.6040900@research.dfci.harvard.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45096F70.6040900@research.dfci.harvard.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-09/txt/msg00080.txt.bz2 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