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Re: Memory watchpoints
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Re: Memory watchpoints


  • Subject: Re: Memory watchpoints
  • From: Jim Ingham <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:46:53 -0700

ppc64 is no different (one data break register, not exposed to User Space by the kernel). On x86 the data break registers are available in user space. Can't tell yet whether we will be able to fit wiring them up to gdb in the next release or not, we've got lots of other stuff on our plate.

Jim

On Oct 12, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:


On Oct 12, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Jim Ingham wrote:

So first, you should be aware of the limitations of the watchpoint support on Mac OS X. This is from the gdb release notes - i.e.

Which raises a question I've had for a while now - I know that using watchpoints on PPC32 causes debugging to become super-slow because the hardware watchpoint register isn't available, but are things any different under i386, PPC64, or x86_64?


Nick Zitzmann
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