On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:10:57 +0100 
 Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:

 > with the old gdb, it was possible to change the value of a statically
 > initialised globale variable in an executable with gdb, whith the command
 > 'gdb --write <binary>' and then 'set variable=value'.
 > How to do this with the new gdb ? --write is not accepted anymore, and
 > 'set variable=value' complains about unaccessible address. I didn't find
 > anything in the man page or in 'help'.

EBADF is what I get.  Looks like gdb just never opens /dev/mem for writing.
Wow, what a lose.  Should be fairly easy to find this and correct it.

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