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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: si: Cannot access memory at address 0xeafffff4
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050424223228.GA14252@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c547dd$Blat.v2.4$5dcba9a0@zahav.net.il>

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 11:19:51AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:04:54 -0700
> > From: Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com>
> > 
> > What is gdb doing here that it wants to read the target's memory?
> > 
> > (gdb) si
> > Cannot access memory at address 0xeafffff4
> > (gdb)
> 
> Can it be that it's reading the next instruction?

Probably.  This is ARM; most ARM debugging stubs do not offer a
single-step operation, so without hardware singlestep we need to read
the current PC in order to determine the next PC.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC


      reply	other threads:[~2005-04-24 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-23  1:04 Shaun Jackman
2005-04-23  8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-24 22:32   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]

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