Re: debuggers

shyamal@seas.smu.edu (Shyamal Prasad)
Thu, 11 Nov 1993 01:19:07 GMT

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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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Shyamal Prasad, Department of Computer Science
Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX 75275, USA
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