gdb breakpoint on x86

s88
2006-10-16T00:12:35Z

Hi all:
I'm trying to build up a simple breakpoint insertor by myself. I also
tracing the gdb source code and reference it!!!
But I feel confused about the int 3(0xcc), the function
"i386_breakpoint_from_pc" has 2 parameters, one of the parameter is a
program counter. I'm not sure the meaning of this program counter.
Does this program counter perform an ISR? Once the 0xcc trig, the
current program counter will replace by this one?

By the way, the following code can compile without any error. But the
sizeof which in the "i386_breakpoint_from_pc" derives segmentation
fault.

Could anyone help me?!
Thanks.

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

typedef int (*_test) (int, int);

typedef unsigned char my_byte;
typedef unsigned long CORE_ADDR;

static const my_byte *i386_breakpoint_from_pc (CORE_ADDR * pc, int *len);

/**
* My test function
*/
int my_test (int a, int b){
int i;
int ret;
for (i = 0; i < a; i++)
{
ret = a + 1 << b;
}
return ret;
}

void test (_test t){
int *len=0;
my_byte *b=NULL;
printf("len = %d",len);
b = (my_byte *)i386_breakpoint_from_pc ((CORE_ADDR *)(t), len);
printf("len = %d",len);
}

static const my_byte *i386_breakpoint_from_pc (CORE_ADDR * pc, int *len){
static my_byte break_insn[] = { 0xcc }; /* int 3 */
*len = sizeof (break_insn);
return break_insn;
}

int main (void){
test (my_test);
return 0;
}

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System on Chip Design Lab.
Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering,
National Chung Cheng University
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