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From: Pierre Muller <muller@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>, bauer@atlas.lcs.mit.edu
Cc: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: x86 hardware breakpoint question
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 23:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20011116135651.0128d658@ics.u-strasbg.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2110-Thu15Nov2001212616+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il>

At 20:26 15/11/2001 , Eli Zaretskii a écrit:
> > Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:59:27 -0500
> > From: Steven Bauer <bauer@atlas.lcs.mit.edu>
> >
> > Quick question, does gdb support hardware breakpoints on
> > x86 architectures?
>
>Current GDB snapshots and the pretest of GDB 5.1 should support
>them.  What version do you use and on what platform?
But this depends on the TARGET OS:

   cygwin that completely relies on win32 API calls does not support
hardware breakpoint (nor watchpoints)
because there is no API call to set a hardware trap.



Pierre Muller
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-16 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-04 14:28 Steven Bauer
2001-11-05  6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-11-05 23:28   ` Pierre Muller [this message]
2001-11-06 12:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-11-06 14:35       ` Christopher Faylor
2001-11-06 15:15         ` muller
2001-11-06 15:58         ` DJ Delorie
2001-11-06 17:12           ` muller
2001-11-06 18:13             ` DJ Delorie
2001-11-06 19:34               ` Christopher Faylor
2001-11-07 18:38                 ` muller
2001-11-05  8:25 ` Quality Quorum

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