Re: [PATCH] remote: Avoid unwanted shlib internal BPs When debugging Linux kernel or u-boot with Abatron BDI emulator an error occurs:

Pedro Alves
2012-06-01T14:40:53Z

On 06/01/2012 03:38 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

>> GDB has no special knowledge of the Linux kernel, nor of u-boot.
>> > A GNU/Linux targeted GDB (*-*-linux-gnu) recognizes, and knows how to
>> > debug user space applications. If the kernel binary or the u-boot binary
>> > look very much like GNU/Linux user space programs, the *-*-linux-gnu targeted
>> > GDB will assume that's what they are. If you used a bare metal elf/eabi
>> > targeted GDB, which is really what those programs are, you'd not see this.
>

>
> Yes you would, the error comes from this in solibsvr4.c:

> static const char * const bkpt_names[] =
> {
> "_start",
> "__start",
> "main",
> NULL
> };

No you wouldn't, because solib-svr4 is not used (or even compiled in)
on a bare metal targeted GDB.

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Pedro Alves