From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H . J . Lu" To: Mark Kettenis Cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il, gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: gdb doesn't work very well with dynamic linked binaries Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 08:49:00 -0000 Message-id: <20000905084923.C15547@lucon.org> References: <20000901192328.A28312@valinux.com> <200009041047.LAA10659@phal.cygnus.co.uk> <20000904084934.A11100@lucon.org> <200009041751.e84HprD11517@debye.wins.uva.nl> <20000904164458.A12270@lucon.org> <200009050548.BAA05890@indy.delorie.com> <20000904233222.A13933@lucon.org> <200009051035.GAA06054@indy.delorie.com> <200009051333.e85DXsv12272@debye.wins.uva.nl> X-SW-Source: 2000-09/msg00033.html On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:33:54PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > If it won't be fixed in 5.1, I will follow your hints and implement a > > Linux only solution when it happens to me again. > > A generic x86 solution would be preferable, but a clean, well > documented Linux-only solution is certainly welcome. Given do it clean, do it fast and make it to work, you can only pick 2 if I am the only one to do it. Since I don't have much time to do it, I have to pick do it fast. > > I can do this Very Soon (tm) provided that I hear a GO from The Powers > That Be. Andrew? Stan? What say you? > > > Hardware watchpoints > > have been known to be broken on Linux/ia32 for a long time and nothing > > has been done to it. > > Apparently nobody cares enough. It isn't at the top of my priority > list so if nobody else contributes the necessary code, it probably > won't happen in the near future. It has to be fixed in 5.1, one way or the other. The worst case is I will make my kludge available to the Linux community. H.J.