Re: catchpoints

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 04:09:01PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 04:00:43PM -0400, Paul Dubuc wrote:
> > > I'm using gdb 5.2 on Solaris 8 to debug code compiled with g++ 2.95.3. 
> > > When I try to enter 'catch throw' or 'catch catch' commands I get a
> > > message that says
> > > 
> > > no runtime support for this
> > > 
> > > Does this mean I need to rebuild gdb to support these commands or is it
> > > just that they aren't supported for this OS or compiler?
> > > 
> > > I can't find any info in the manual about this.
> > 
> > I believe they're only supported on HP/UX (and none of the HP/UX
> > support works quite right any more...).  I don't think anyone has tried
> > to implement them on GCC code yet.
> 
> Actually, I did, and had it working just fine.
> It's actually not that difficult, but it is ABI specific.

Have you still got the code to do this?  I'd like to see it.  Although
I've got a pretty good idea how it's done now that I look over the
code.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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