gdb - No hardware breakpoint support in the target

Question

I'm tring to set hardware breakpoint using gdb hbreak command

hbreak *address

but I'm getting the following error: "No hardware breakpoint support in the target".

Is there anyway to fix this problem?

Answer 1

Try the start command first. GDB often says that when the program has not been started yet even if there is hardware support (this is a very misleading message in this context).