Re: ARM register pages

Richard Earnshaw
2005-06-10T08:14:30Z

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 22:14, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> On 6/9/05, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> > The easiest solution will be to do this instead:
> > abt: [copy the banked address to lr, which is not useful at this
> > point]
> > 1: b 1b
>
> If it's possible, I'd prefer to accomplish a backtrace without
> altering the target's code. I was hoping that "set $cpsr=0x1f" would
> make $lr_usr visible in $lr to gdb, but the value of $lr displayed by
> "i reg" remains the same. Does gdb cache the value of the register? Is
> there a way to force gdb to reload the value of the register from the
> remote target?

Be careful. If you set the CPSR to user mode in this way, the only way
back out again will be to take another trap, thus destroying any machine
state you might have. That is, reading the user mode registers in this
way will be destructive to your debugging session.

R.