Watchpoints broken in HEAD

Andreas Schwab
2004-06-14T15:14:53Z

Support for hardware watchpoints on ia64 is currently broken. gdb is just
reporting SIGTRAP when the watchpoint triggers.

$ cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>

int i;

int
main (void)
{
printf ("Hello world\n");
i = 1;
return 0;
}
$ gdb hello
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This GDB was configured as "ia64-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) watch i
Hardware watchpoint 1: i
(gdb) r
Starting program: /suse/schwab/test/hello
Hardware watchpoint 1: i
Hardware watchpoint 1: i
Hello world

Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
main () at hello.c:9
9 i = 1;
(gdb)

Andreas.

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