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From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Xin Tong <xerox.time.tech@gmail.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: software breakpoint in gdb
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F25EA26.8020901@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120129165303.GA18465@host2.jankratochvil.net>

On 1/29/2012 11:53 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:48:30 +0100, Xin Tong wrote:
>> What if the interrupt instruction is bigger than breakpointed
>> instruction ?
>
> I do not know about such architecture, it probably does not exist.

It sure would be a disastrous mistake to make in any architectural
design. the x86 of course has a one byte interrupt instruction
precisely for this purpose.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-30  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-29 16:48 Xin Tong
2012-01-29 16:53 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-30  0:54   ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2012-01-30  5:54     ` Kevin Pouget
2012-01-30  6:17       ` Yao Qi
2012-01-30 15:51         ` Marc Khouzam
2012-01-30 13:19       ` Robert Dewar

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