Re: gdb ignoring vCont supported commands

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 10/18/2018 02:42 PM, Bill Morgan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 4:12 PM Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/09/2018 09:29 PM, Bill Morgan wrote:
>>>
>>> So it is now recognizing the vContSupported, but it is still sending
>>> vCont;s
>>>
>>
>> Argh, I forgot that this only really works on ARM GNU/Linux.
>> What is your target?
>>
>> We're missing the small infrastructure change in GDB
>> mentioned in the discussion I linked before.
>>
> 
> I couldn't get the change on the other thread to work, 

What change do you mean?

> but this has been
> reported before and a patch submitted to fix it.
> 
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21272
> 
> I only needed this portion of the patch to get it working.
> 
> Any chance on getting it merged to master?
> 

No, sorry -- that would make gdb always use software single-step,
even if the stub/probe supports hw stepping.

Not sure about the arm_get_next_pcs_syscall_next_pc change,
but I suppose that it helps with most syscalls.

See <https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ContributionChecklist>.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves