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From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
To: kceiwH <kceiwh@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: How GDB knows a breakpoint is hit?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <daef60380908192352j51517d0eo9e912c9137acf2ca@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84D22DD1-F4AD-4985-A0EC-AF3B53774D10@gmail.com>

I think you can read the code around function bpstat_what.

Hui

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 23:28, kceiwH <kceiwh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wonder how GDB knows it should stop the inferior when a breakpoint is hit. I try to read the code but only to find how GDB creates a breakpoint. I thought GDB might change some instructions of inferior so that when the inferior executes the modified instructions, GDB should know. But what the function "create_breakpoint" does is to add a breakpoint to the list "breakpoint_chain". It is not what I thought. So I am confused. Does GDB monitor each instruction of the inferior and check whether there is a breakpoint and stop the inferior before the instruction is executed? If so, how GDB monitor the inferior? And it will be too slow. Could anybody tell how GDB handle it and plus the codes. Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mao


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-20  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-19 15:52 kceiwH
2009-08-19 19:13 ` Satendra...
2009-08-19 22:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-20  2:21   ` kceiwH
2009-08-20  6:54 ` Hui Zhu [this message]

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