Watch point for unaligned stores

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 01:25:24PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> I had a bug where the word at 0x8 was being clobbered by some bug in
> my program. I set at a watchpoint (watch *(int*)8) but it was never
> triggered even though the memory was modified. I found in the end that
> the errant instruction was writing a word at address 0x9, which on the
> ARM architecture modifies the word at 0x8 due to alignment. Could I
> set a watchpoint that would have caught this bug, other than say
> setting a watchpoint at all four addresses of the word?

This sounds like a bug in your remote debugging stub.

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