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From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Monika Chaddha <monika@acmet.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: break instruction does not work for mips simulator
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4118E93F.3060902@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000801c47ec2$cb6eadc0$5100a8c0@monika>

> Hi
> 
> 'Break' instruction does not work for mips32 and mips16 targets in a
> user program (asm file). When I try to execute 'break'instruction, the
> control does not proceed, again and again the same instruction 'break'
> executes and also I don't get any break point exception.
> 
> Is it any known bug in GDB?

This behavior is to be expected.  Since GDB didn't insert the breakpoint 
it has no reason to remove/skip it.

You can set:

	handle SIGTRAP pass noprint nostop

and GDB will pass such traps back to the inferior, however, no guarantee 
on what happens next.

Andrew



      reply	other threads:[~2004-08-10 15:27 UTC|newest]

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2004-08-10 10:16 Monika Chaddha
2004-08-10 15:27 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]

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