breakpoint on non-function symbol

["Bahadir Balban" <bahadir dot balban at gmail dot com>]

Hi,

Is it possible to put a breakpoint on a symbol that is not a function?

I have two elf images, the first is a loader that contains the second
image in itself. I want to refer to a symbol defined in the second
from the first. To achieve that, I extracted the symbol from second
and defined it as a variable in the linker script of the first. When I
break on  the symbol gdb complains its not a function. I could
possibly define it as a function in assembler but I've done enough
tweaks; don't want to add more unless you have a better suggestion.

Thanks,
Bahadir