From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2964 invoked by alias); 8 Aug 2012 16:40:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 2953 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Aug 2012 16:40:20 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-lb0-f169.google.com (HELO mail-lb0-f169.google.com) (209.85.217.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:40:01 +0000 Received: by lbon3 with SMTP id n3so626450lbo.0 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:40:00 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.26.73 with SMTP id j9mr2998207lbg.10.1344443994192; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:39:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.46.129 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 09:39:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:40:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Hardware breakpoint limitation issue during the gdb regression test From: Liang Cheng To: Terry Guo Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00021.txt.bz2 I believe for ARM, only one hardware breakpoint is allowed. You may search through the gdb mail list. Liang On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Terry Guo wrote: > Hi, > > I managed to run gdb "make check" on a real arm cortex-m3 board. > During this regression test, I saw many failures are caused by "Cannot > insert hardware breakpoint 8" and "You may have requested too many > hardware breakpoints/watchpoints". It's true that my arm board only > supports limited number breakpoints. So how to workaround this > limitation for regression test? Thanks. > > BR, > Terry