HW breakpoint on Linux x86 native

[Michael Eager]

On 07/16/2012 11:43 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:17:43 +0200, Michael Eager wrote:
>> When running a local process, the target vector is different,
>> created by init_exec_ops() in exec.c.  This defaults to
>> to_can_use_hw_breakpoint = reply_zero().
>>
>> RH has a patch which forces the test in their gdb-7.3.1 release:
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=gdb-bz541866-rwatch-before-run.patch;hb=master
>
> It seems to be fixed in FSF GDB since 7.4 by:
>
> [RFA 2/3] Demote to sw watchpoint only in update_watchpoint
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-04/msg00292.html
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00042.html
> commit efa8e67a1ea2d6f90d86efc31076f24e67940f8e
> Author: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
> Date:   Thu May 5 22:52:09 2011 +0000
>          Demote to sw watchpoint only in update_watchpoint.
>
> Do you really run gdb-7.4+?

$ gdb t
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.4.50.20120710-cvs
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
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<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /tmp/t...done.
(gdb) l
1       #include <stdio.h>
2
3       int main (void)
4       {
5         int a, b, c;
6
7         a = 5;
8         b = 10;
9         c = b - a;
10        if (c == 5)
(gdb) hb 8
No hardware breakpoint support in the target.
(gdb) b 8
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4004db: file t.c, line 8.
(gdb) quit



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