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| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| From: | shyamal@seas.smu.edu (Shyamal Prasad) |
| Keywords: | debug |
| Organization: | SMU - School of Engineering & Applied Science - Dallas |
| References: | 93-10-124 93-11-062 |
| Date: | Thu, 11 Nov 1993 01:19:07 GMT |
maniattb@cs.rpi.edu (Bill Maniatty) writes:
>One beef that I have with most debuggers I use (gdb, sdb, dbx, ...) is
>that on most workstations under unix, the debuggers do NOT use hardware
>defined break points, so that I cannot set watch on a data location.
gdb on running on a DEC Station 5000 under ULTRIX allows watch points.
However, it does *not* use the hardware and runs about 10 to a 100
times slower.
I have used them one time when I was really sunk...they *do* work. I
don't know about sdb/dbx though.
I hope I have not repeated the obvious :-)
Cheers!
Shyamal
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Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX 75275, USA
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