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Re: x86 hardware breakpoint question


On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 05:57:04PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>>   So I am surprised to hear that win32
>> lets you set debug registers, but if that works, great!
>
>I don't know if it works, I just looked it up in the documentation.
>
>>  Are the debug registers process wide or
>> thread specific in that case ?
>
>Well, it is Set*Thread*Context.

Which is, conveniently enough, what gdb is already using.  :-)

Did you find specific documentation on the hardware registers, though?

I see this in the system header:

    BYTE    ExtendedRegisters[MAXIMUM_SUPPORTED_EXTENSION];

but I don't see any description about how to use them.

cgf


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