From:	acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au
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To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
	"Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: DJGPP & Windows 2000 package updated for testing
Date:	Tue, 4 Sep 2001 23:14:30 GMT
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Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

> > From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> > Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:34:38 +1000
> > 
> > The only outstanding issue with regards to DJGPP and Win 2K with the
> > available packages is that in Bash 2.05 the set command may be causing
> > issues with re-configuring packages and as such you may not be able to
> > re-configure or re-build the packages on Win 2K until this is resolved.
> 
> There's one more known issue, discovered a few days ago by Charles:
> hardware-assisted breakpoints and watchpoints don't work.
> 
> More accurately, the functions in src/debug/common/dbgcom.c which are
> invoked by all the debuggers to insert and remove hardware breakpoints
> and watchpoints via DPMI functions (because debug registers cannot be
> accessed directly under DPMI)--these functions seem to be broken on
> W2K in some weird way.  (You can set a watchpoint, but once set, it
> seems like it cannot be removed, and gets ``stuck'' in the DPMI host
> until you kill the DOS box.)
> 
> As a result, edebug32 and FSDB are almost completely broken and barely
> work, because they use hardware breakpoints for the first 4
> breakpoints.  GDB does work as long as you dont use `hbreak' and
> `watch' (or `rwatch'/`awatch') commands.
> 
Thanks for the update. I need to modify the site to indicate that GDB hardware 
breakpoints don't work. The site does not have edbug32 ot FSDB as far as I know 
unless they are included in some other package I built. I will check this 
tonight before updating the info at the site.

Thanks,
Andrew

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