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Re: How to enable hardware breakpoint support


Thank you very much. I will find another way to debug.


On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 17:38, Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 November 2010 13:43:24, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> On Thursday 18 November 2010 13:18:55, DeD MustDIE wrote:
>> > Thank you.
>> > I was not careful. On workstation (Ubuntu) hardware breakpoints work
>> > fine. I really forgot to run program.
>> > But on server (FreeBSD) hardware breakpoints still not working.
>>
>> AFAICS, an x86 FBSD gdb should support hardware breakpoints and
>> watchpoints. ?I don't see an x64_64/amd64 FreeBSD port in the FSF GDB
>> tree, so it may be your GDB has local changes to support it
>> that missed adding the HW breakpoint support.
>
> Actually, that's nonsense. ?There's an x86_64-freebsd port in mainline
> indeed. ? But, it doesn't seem to install the necessary hooks for
> hardware breakpoints or watchpoints support. ?Don't know
> more than that though. ?And I didn't check older gdb's either.
>
> --
> Pedro Alves
>


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