PRecord and hardware watchpoint

Michael Snyder msnyder@vmware.com
Thu Feb 18 18:15:00 GMT 2010


Marc Khouzam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> someone asked me if watchpoints worked with Reverse debugging (PRecord),
> so I gave it a try.  What I found is that software watchpoints work but
> not hardware watchpoints.  That sounds reasonable to me.
> 
> What seemed strange was that hardware watchpoints did not work
> even when doing normal forward execution with PRecord enabled.
> I guess during replay it makes sense, but during record?
> 
> Just wondering.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Marc
> 
> P.S. It would be nice to have some kinds of warning to tell user
> not to set hw watchpoints when PRecord is being used.

Were you using the release or CVS version?
CVS head should work.



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