Re: breakpoint on non-function symbol

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

On 2/1/07, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> "Bahadir Balban" <bahadir.balban@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Is it possible to put a breakpoint on a symbol that is not a function?
>
> You can put a breakpoint at any address with the "break *ADDR" syntax.
>
> Andreas.


The problem is the address is not known in advance, so I had to rely
on the symbol. Anyway, I fixed it in assembler by:

.global symname;
.type symname, function;
.equ symname, addr

rather than including it in the linker script.

Thanks,
Bahadir