From: Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support targets that know how to step over breakpoints
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <507E99BB.8050105@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <506D859E.9050600@codesourcery.com>
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On 10/04/2012 09:48 AM, Luis Machado wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Most of the targets we deal with need to be told to lift off breakpoints
> from the inferior prior to single-stepping. A few targets are able to
> just step over those breakpoints without being told so.
>
> In the latter case, GDB assumes the target knows how to manage
> breakpoints on its own.
>
> gdbserver does not know how to do this unless we force this mechanism
> into it, but, honestly, i don't see the point. Usually targets that know
> how to step over breakpoints do so via a more low level interface like
> the kernel. Let me know if you think otherwise.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-17 11:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-04 12:48 Luis Machado
2012-10-17 11:43 ` Luis Machado [this message]
2012-10-30 10:58 ` Luis Machado
2012-11-27 15:20 ` Luis Machado
2012-11-27 17:04 ` Pedro Alves
2012-11-29 14:21 ` Luis Machado
2012-11-30 18:50 ` Pedro Alves
2012-11-30 18:53 ` Pedro Alves
2013-02-28 7:16 ` Hui Zhu
2013-05-07 2:50 ` Hui Zhu
2012-10-30 11:53 ` Yao Qi
2012-10-30 12:01 ` Luis Machado
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