From: Cal Erickson <cerickson@mvista.com>
To: Wolfgang Schmieder <wolfgang.schmieder@onlinehome.de>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: hardware watchpoints for ppc
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 14:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40EABB0E.7080309@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407041103.55619.wolfgang.schmieder@onlinehome.de>
Wolfgang,
From what I know there are no hardware watchpoints available on the PPC
target boards. You might just try watch which will create a software
watchpoint. These do work on PPC processors.
Cal
Wolfgang Schmieder wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is there anybody who knows how I can set hardware watchpoints on ppc boards ?
> I have a mpc855 board running a multithreaded application. It appears that
> one thread (always the same thread) has a corrupted stack (always at the same
> address). I guess I need to set a hardware watchpoint in a remote debugging
> session to find the piece of code which is corrupting the stack.
>
> There is one gdb mailing list thread about "supporting hw break/watch for
> embedded ppc", which makes me think that there is at least a patch or
> workaround available to set hardware watchpoints on a ppc board.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-06 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-04 9:06 Wolfgang Schmieder
2004-07-06 14:51 ` Cal Erickson [this message]
2004-07-07 0:28 ` Steven Johnson
[not found] ` <200407062229.18395.wolfgang.schmieder@onlinehome.de>
[not found] ` <40EB0C0D.8020806@mvista.com>
2004-07-12 20:38 ` Wolfgang Schmieder
2004-07-12 23:15 ` Steven Johnson
2004-09-25 15:08 ` Wolfgang Schmieder
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