Re: gdb won't single-step over ARM integer divide opcode

[John Breitenbach <breiten@lexmark.com>]

Yao,
   Yes, your patch does work for me.  Sorry for not noticing your patch
earlier.

John

On 08/09/2015 07:39 AM, Yao Qi wrote:
> On 05/08/15 19:02, John Breitenbach wrote:
>> I did some debugging and have found that the function,
>> arm_get_next_pc_raw, inappropriately decodes this opcode as a load into
>> the PC register.  (bits 24..27 are 7, bit 20 is set, and the dest
>> register appears to be the PC.
>>
>> Binutils's logic to disassemble the sdiv/udiv opcodes has opcode &
>> 0x0ff0f0f0 = 0x0710f010 (with bit 21 distinguishing between udiv and 
>> sdiv)
>>
>> I've come up with the following patch which makes my situation work. But
>> I don't know how complete it is, as there may be other newer opcodes
>> which fall into the formerly undefined instruction space.
>
> Hi John,
> Thanks for your patch, however, I think I've fixed this problem in
> patch https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-06/msg00610.html
> Does it work for you?  This commit will be in 7.10 release.
>
>>
>> Also, the comment "byte write to PC" around line 4930 seems wrong, as
>> the check for bit 22 a few lines earlier catches that situation, and
>> what's left is word writes to the PC."
>>
>
> Yeah, it is possible.  Patch is welcome :)
>