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Re: Problem with manual watchpoints

From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
To: Aravinda <aravindakidambi at gmail dot com>
Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:48:58 +0100
Subject: Re: Problem with manual watchpoints
References: <26eb53620912241247i718992d6i422451f4b7f9931@mail.gmail.com> <20091224210825.GA29926@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <26eb53620912241341w30a924afxf90f66166b8c552b@mail.gmail.com> <20091224215217.GA32721@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <26eb53620912281321k3fe1ee7dy9fcdc8bdff69cd4b@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:21:34 +0100, Aravinda wrote:
> Could it be possible for a processor with debug registers to not support
> exact reporting or could there be problems since Im working on a VM ?

Which "VM"?  It is true some old KVMs had some bugs with watchpoints.  Those
are fixed long time (such as at least in kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64).
You can run the gdb testsuite both in host and in guest OS and compare it.
You can also compare the results from:
	http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/utrace/tests


Regards,
Jan

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