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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:14:00 -0000
From: Tao Zhang <zhangtao@cc.gatech.edu>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec.gnu@mindspring.com>,
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Subject: Re: Debug code in data section in gdb
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"doesn't work" means the execution doens't stop at the break points...


			-Tao Zhang (zhangtao@cc.gatech.edu)

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Tao Zhang <zhangtao@cc.gatech.edu> writes:
>
> > Hi, Michael
> >
> > I tried that many times, it doesn't work for me. I even played some tri=
ck
> > so that the code buffer is actually placed in code section now. It still
> > doesn't work. I am very confused. The breakpoints work just fine for ot=
her
> > code.
>
> Please define "doesn't work".  What are the symptoms?
>
> > So break *0x12344657 should work?
>
> Yes.  GDB does not distinguish between "code" and "data" section when
> placing a breakpoint, it's all just memory.
>
> Andreas.
>
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