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Re: [OPTERON/x86_64] - can debug while setting breakpoint
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: FranÃois Chenais <francois at chenais dot net>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:46:27 +0100
- Subject: Re: [OPTERON/x86_64] - can debug while setting breakpoint
- References: <498B34A4.8030607@chenais.net>
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:49:08 +0100, FranÃois Chenais wrote:
> The same error occurs with others debuggers : totalview, sun dbx, intel idb
> and while using intel icc or g++ compilers :/
...
> I've done the test on 5 Amd opteron x86_64 hosts with Cent OS 5.2
> - The error occurs on 3/5.
RHEL-5.2 kernel was unfortunately very "unfriendly" to the debuggers due to
utrace and the ptrace emulation on top of it. RHEL-5.3 has all the commonly
visible problems fixed.
Regards,
Jan