Subject: Re: Watches busted in gdb/1.6?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/19/2003 14:36:54
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seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) wrote:
> So, I'm trying to debug a program where static data gets smashed...
>
> Do watches work on 1.6 on i386?
AFAIK they work but gdb doesn't use the hardware debug features
on NetBSD. Thus, your program will run *very* slow. Maybe you
you should consider to utilize assert() or even mprotect().
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Christian
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