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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Mathieu Lacage <Mathieu.Lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: help string for "break" command
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070112134932.GA21726@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1168609517.2789.47.camel@garfield.inria.fr>

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 02:45:16PM +0100, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> Am I right in assuming that the gdb command "break" places exclusively
> so-called software-breakpoints while the command "hbreak" places a
> hardware-breakpoint (I am not sure I have figured out the details of the
> logic in gdb/breakpoint.c) ? 

Not 100%.  CVS versions of GDB will use hardware breakpoints
automatically if you try to set them in truly read-only memory.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-12 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-12 11:42 placing a breakpoint at a physical address on x86 with gdb Mathieu Lacage
2007-01-12 12:48 ` Mathieu Lacage
2007-01-12 13:46   ` help string for "break" command Mathieu Lacage
2007-01-12 13:49     ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-01-12 14:20       ` Mathieu Lacage
2007-01-12 14:26         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-12 14:27         ` Bob Rossi
2007-01-12 14:34           ` Mathieu Lacage
2007-01-12 18:11       ` mathieu lacage
2007-01-12 23:26         ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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