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Re: Fwd: disabling NMI rendering breakpoints non-functional?
- From: Kent Tong <kent dot tong dot mo at gmail dot com>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:09:52 +0800
- Subject: Re: Fwd: disabling NMI rendering breakpoints non-functional?
- References: <CAKs98dH7TShpfKe4cctTfbonDOkbS1m5rVZv0_WiXwqhTsW8ug at mail dot gmail dot com> <CAKs98dFpYNg-Yc8YLHxZ+HV6NBHNm6FkSWR-QbOWLhRHmebkjQ at mail dot gmail dot com> <516C10D3 dot 3020304 at redhat dot com>
> GDB has no clue of NMI, it just tells the target to set a breakpoint at
> some address, or to single-step. How qemu implements those things
> behind the scenes is up to qemu.
Thanks for the reply! I also figured that. But does the breakpoint if it is
set to a memory address whose content will be overwritten (e.g., loading
instructions into there)? In the past it worked, but now somehow it has
stopped working.
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Kent Tong
IT author and consultant, child education coach