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From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Steven Johnson <sjohnson@neurizon.net>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com, drow@false.org
Subject: Re: GDB and ARM Frame Pointer strangeness
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40C7292E.5040906@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40C65020.7010904@neurizon.net>

> Everything might be ok, if you are using a software interface that you have "burned and learned" to get executing and which has set up your environment for you, but we have the ability to debug right from a hardware reset, the registers are in this state completley random.  There is no ABI in use, and it is inapproriate for GDB to "assume" at this stage that it can dereference R11 and that that register contains the frame pointer. 

There's nothing special about the state of the inferior immediatly after 
a reset.  R11 (just like any other register) could become corrupt at any 
moment in the program's execution, and equally could always be valid 
after a reset.

Also, there's nothing special about the debugger generating apparently 
random memory fetches.  Such a fetch could equally come from the user 
(e.g., via a typo), the target must be robust to such accesses (there is 
the "mem" command to help with this).

Andrew



  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-09 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-07  8:50 Steven Johnson
2004-06-08  4:25 ` Steven Johnson
2004-06-08  4:29   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-06-08  5:02     ` Steven Johnson
2004-06-08 12:26       ` Mark Salter
2004-06-08 23:47         ` Steven Johnson
2004-06-09 15:14           ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2004-06-10  0:06             ` Steven Johnson
2004-06-10  2:20               ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-06-10  4:37                 ` Steven Johnson
2004-06-10  5:10                   ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-06-10  7:16                     ` Steven Johnson
2004-06-10 21:32                       ` Andrew Cagney
2004-06-11  0:46                         ` Steven Johnson
2004-06-11 15:33                           ` Andrew Cagney
2004-06-10  9:03                   ` Richard Earnshaw

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