From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750722AbVJJIj2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:39:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750723AbVJJIj2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:39:28 -0400 Received: from web35814.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([66.163.179.183]:15278 "HELO web35814.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750722AbVJJIj1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:39:27 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=N1egOlSGnDy6rX+7ZyVyOL+bX621fN7f6qfreO2Dh1xJe83hKRnxX9fvvioPnbaFaBohzp/z+2bK8+clArRJBgyroho2BhRW+9zjDnk3iTj/HmHXbdEspOhiIZ/pZVqj79Mnr8BrHfH+Yvz4H+Ff6cLbCoYjRq1uCa6hDbrScjI= ; Message-ID: <20051010083927.92193.qmail@web35814.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 01:39:27 -0700 (PDT) From: nix noob Subject: some peculiar problem debugging in gdb aswell as ald gdb doesnt stop on instruction or stops in the middle of instruction To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org to all concerned iam a noob and i had some peculiar problem during debugging of an assembly coded binary for referance you can visit and glance through this thread in fasm board http://board.flatassembler.net/forum.php?f=4 and googling around and ircing a bit led me to this post in your mailing list http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0406.3/1126.html i actually wanted to reply to that thread so that the questions is continous but i cant find out how i can reply to that thread i see linux torvalds himself has replied to that thread though i dont understand much of those i sense it is a performance (speed issue) but i see the behaviour in gdb due to this is kinda nasty (sigsegvs the binary and executes an instruction from the middle :( hope some one could provide some insightas to how i could still force a break on the test eax,eax and also survive without being sigsegved ?? i give the kernel version of mine atm uname -r 2.4.21-260-smp4G thanks and regards nixnoob __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com