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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Jim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb/riscv: Don't error when decoding a 6 or 8 byte instruction
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <644e82ee-6c4e-f01a-4cd7-f202b327366d@FreeBSD.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190604115054.25306-1-andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>

On 6/4/19 4:50 AM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> If the RISC-V prologue scanner finds a 6 or 8 byte instruction we
> currently throw an internal error, which is not great for the user.
> 
> A mechanism already exists in the prologue scanner to leave
> instructions marked as unknown so that we can stop the prologue scan
> without raising an error, this is used for all 2 and 4 byte
> instructions that are not part of the small set the prologue scanner
> actually understands.
> 
> This commit changes GDB so that all 6 and 8 byte instructions are
> marked as unknown, rather than causing an error.

Looks good to me.

-- 
John Baldwin


  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-04 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-04 11:51 Andrew Burgess
2019-06-04 16:36 ` John Baldwin [this message]
2019-06-04 23:49 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2019-06-05  9:08 ` Andrew Burgess
2019-06-05  9:12 ` Pedro Alves
2019-06-05  9:38   ` Andrew Burgess

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