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Re: x86 hardware breakpoint question


At 20:26 15/11/2001 , Eli Zaretskii a écrit:
> > Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:59:27 -0500
> > From: Steven Bauer <bauer@atlas.lcs.mit.edu>
> >
> > Quick question, does gdb support hardware breakpoints on
> > x86 architectures?
>
>Current GDB snapshots and the pretest of GDB 5.1 should support
>them.  What version do you use and on what platform?
But this depends on the TARGET OS:

   cygwin that completely relies on win32 API calls does not support
hardware breakpoint (nor watchpoints)
because there is no API call to set a hardware trap.



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