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Re: AMD64 Hardware Watchpoints
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Giles Hall <ghall at research dot dfci dot harvard dot edu>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:10:40 -0400
- Subject: Re: AMD64 Hardware Watchpoints
- References: <45096F70.6040900@research.dfci.harvard.edu>
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:04:16AM -0400, Giles Hall wrote:
> Does gdb 6.4 support hardware watchpoints on AMD64? If it does, why
Yes.
> would gdb still be falling back to software watchpoints? Could it be an
> alignment issue?
You've probably asked it to watch something that can't be watched using
a hardware watchpoint, e.g. wrong size or not in memory. Please post
an example, and then we can see.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery