Bug 6531 - Low level hardware watchpoint support should check, and reject, incorrectly aligned addresses
Summary: Low level hardware watchpoint support should check, and reject, incorrectly a...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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Product: frysk
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Phil Muldoon
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Blocks: 1625
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Reported: 2008-05-20 08:49 UTC by Phil Muldoon
Modified: 2008-05-20 08:50 UTC (History)
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Description Phil Muldoon 2008-05-20 08:49:49 UTC 
An unaligned address should be rejected as per hardware manual specifications as
noted in each ISAs specification.
Comment 1 Phil Muldoon 2008-05-20 08:50:57 UTC 
commit e62c4482adaf39915db4f42983327a7b715d316a
Author: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue May 13 15:37:46 2008 +0100

    Check memory address alignment before setting watchpoint.
    
    2008-05-13  Phil Muldoon  <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
    
    	* TestTaskObserverWatchpoint.java (testAddFailed): Add alignment test.
    
    2008-05-13  Phil Muldoon  <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
    
    	* IA32WatchpointFunctions.java (setWatchpoint): Add alignment check.
    	* X8664WatchpointFunctions.java (setWatchpoint): Ditto.