Package: gdb
Version: 6.8-3
Severity: important

Bug does not occur with upsteam gdb.  To reproduce run an amd64 kernel
in kvm, then set a watchpoint and continue:

        $ gdb vmlinux
        GNU gdb 6.8-debian
        Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
        License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
        <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
        This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
        There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show
        copying"
        and "show warranty" for details.
        This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"...
        (no debugging symbols found)
        (gdb) target remote localhost:1234
        Remote debugging using localhost:1234
        0xffffffff80209f19 in default_idle ()
        (gdb) watch (*(long*)0xffffffff80582558)
        Hardware watchpoint 1: *(long *) 18446744071567844696
        (gdb) c
        Continuing.
        Segmentation fault 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gdb depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.7-11         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libexpat1                 1.95.8-4       XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080405-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5              5.2-3          GNU readline and history libraries

gdb recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information



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