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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:27:00 -0000
From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
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To: Monika Chaddha <monika@acmet.com>
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Subject: Re: break instruction does not work for mips simulator
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> 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