From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Billy O'Connor Subject: Re: c debugging w/ gdb revisited Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 02:21:38 -0400 (EDT) Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020614062138.240CD89@dps7.oconnoronline.net> References: <20020614065235.010E336F9@sitemail.everyone.net> Reply-To: billy@oconnoronline.net Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20020614065235.010E336F9@sitemail.everyone.net> (xjnfx@doityourself.com) List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: xjnfx@doityourself.com Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org just a quick question, does anyone know if its possible to set a break/watchpoint in gdb when a register points to a certain location? i own the gdb manual, and have been playing in it for a bit and just cant seem to figure it out, is it possible? I don't believe that could be done at all, the machine would have to stop whenever it mov'd a value to the register so the debugger could examine it. I don't think that's possible on Intel machines, anyway. -- Billy O'Connor