On Monday, 22 March 2004 at 12:08:58 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > Has anyone found gdb remote kernel debugging on i386's to _not_ be > broken lately? There have been rumours of its brokenness for several > months. There has been some breakage, but I've found it usable. > I rarely use it, but tried it yesterday and found that breakpoints > just don't work. gdb apparently doesn't understand its own > breakpoints. It stops on them, and IIRC it removes the breakpoint > instruction that it has put in the instruction stream, but doesn't > fix up %eip to where the original instruction was, so it normally > wants to resume execution in the middle of a multi-byte instruction. > This tends to crash. Fixing up %eip manually works. Single > stepping works. Hmm. Not my experience. My builds were on 2 January, 22 February and 1 March. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog_at_FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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