Hi. Hardware watchpoints are not available on sparc64 systems running GNU/Linux. If this fact is not reflected in the board description then several tests in gdb fail.
Tested on sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu (T4). >From 8f3dbbdb61dd71d8bdb432f9c005a1cfdbc08935 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.march...@oracle.com> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 07:46:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 2013-10-04 Jose E. Marchesi <jose.march...@oracle.com> * baseboards/unix.exp: Add gdb settings to not use hardware watchpoints in sparc64 running GNU/Linux. --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ baseboards/unix.exp | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 2d23388..b69a13b 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2013-10-04 Jose E. Marchesi <jose.march...@oracle.com> + + * baseboards/unix.exp: Add gdb settings to not use hardware + watchpoints in sparc64 running GNU/Linux. + 2013-06-17 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <al...@gcc.gnu.org> * runtest.exp (libdirs): New global variable. diff --git a/baseboards/unix.exp b/baseboards/unix.exp index cf64a9e..bbb4adf 100644 --- a/baseboards/unix.exp +++ b/baseboards/unix.exp @@ -35,3 +35,8 @@ if { [istarget "*-*-cygwin*"] } { if { [istarget "alpha*-*"] } { set_board_info ieee_multilib_flags "-mieee" } + +# Hardware breakpoints are not supported in sparc64 on GNU/Linux +if { [istarget "sparc64-*-linux-gnu"] } { + set_board_info gdb,no_hardware_watchpoints 1 +} -- 1.7.1 _______________________________________________ DejaGnu mailing list DejaGnu@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dejagnu