From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4266 invoked by alias); 30 Oct 2012 11:53:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 4250 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Oct 2012 11:53:06 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:53:03 +0000 Received: from svr-orw-exc-10.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.58]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1TTANS-0002kO-PD from Yao_Qi@mentor.com for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 04:53:02 -0700 Received: from SVR-ORW-FEM-04.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.97.41]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-10.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 30 Oct 2012 04:53:02 -0700 Received: from qiyao.dyndns.org (147.34.91.1) by svr-orw-fem-04.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.97.41) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.289.1; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 04:53:01 -0700 Message-ID: <508FBF92.9040500@codesourcery.com> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:53:00 -0000 From: Yao Qi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120911 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CC: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support targets that know how to step over breakpoints References: <506D859E.9050600@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <506D859E.9050600@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-10/txt/msg00540.txt.bz2 On 10/04/2012 08:48 PM, Luis Machado wrote: > > 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. Luis, do you have some ideas to test this piece of code in testsuite? Without a special stub, we can't exercise this piece of code. -- Yao