From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26137 invoked by alias); 16 Jul 2012 17:32:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 26103 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jul 2012 17:32:29 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-lb0-f169.google.com (HELO mail-lb0-f169.google.com) (209.85.217.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:32:13 +0000 Received: by lbjn8 with SMTP id n8so9248436lbj.0 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:32:11 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.113.199 with SMTP id ja7mr12294232lab.10.1342459931786; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.67.5 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:32:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <500443C7.5040707@eagerm.com> References: <500443C7.5040707@eagerm.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:32:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: HW breakpoint on Linux x86 native From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Michael Eager Cc: "gdb@sourceware.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Michael Eager wrote: > Hi -- > > I noticed that the FSF version of gdb builds without hw > break support for x86 native. The version of gdb distributed > by RedHat includes a patch to turn this feature on, with a > comment about gdb-6.6 compatibility. > > Can someone tell me why hw bp is not enabled by default > for native x86? Can you be a little more specific about what is not enabled by default? Hardware breakpoints are certainly supported. -- Thanks, Daniel