From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1206 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2001 13:53:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 1167 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2001 13:53:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cerbere.u-strasbg.fr) (130.79.112.7) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 16 Nov 2001 13:53:54 -0000 Received: from laocoon (laocoon.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.112.72]) by cerbere.u-strasbg.fr (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA20664; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:53:45 +0100 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20011116135651.0128d658@ics.u-strasbg.fr> X-Sender: muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 23:28:00 -0000 To: Eli Zaretskii , bauer@atlas.lcs.mit.edu From: Pierre Muller Subject: Re: x86 hardware breakpoint question Cc: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <2110-Thu15Nov2001212616+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: <20011115125927.B3449@atlas.lcs.mit.edu> <20011115125927.B3449@atlas.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00061.txt.bz2 At 20:26 15/11/2001 , Eli Zaretskii a écrit: > > Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:59:27 -0500 > > From: Steven Bauer > > > > 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 Institut Charles Sadron 6,rue Boussingault F 67083 STRASBOURG CEDEX (France) mailto:muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr Phone : (33)-3-88-41-40-07 Fax : (33)-3-88-41-40-99