Re: arm-elf and mips-deb-linux gdb

[Niklaus <niklaus@gmail.com>]

On 6/24/06, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 05:19:04PM +0600, Niklaus wrote:
> > Hi,
> > i just built a cross compiler with target=arm-elf .Then compiled an
> > program first.c
> > which contained
> >
> > 1 int main()
> > 2 {
> > 3 int i;
> > 4 for(i=0;i<10;i++)
> > 5 ;
> > 6 return i;
> > 8  }
> >
> > now i built gdb with target=arm-elf and ran in simulator mode like
> >
> > target sim
> > load first
> > b 4
> >
> > run
> >
> > it break
> >
> > but when i do
> > b 5
> > it goes into an infinite loop and i have to interrupt it.
>
> The most important thing in a bug report is being specific.  Please
> show us a complete log of the GDB session.
>
pro@deb:~/armenv/bin$ ./arm-elf-gdb first.o
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This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=arm-elf"...
(gdb) target sim
Connected to the simulator.
(gdb) list
1
2       int main()
3       {
4               int i=3;
5               while(i<10){
6                       i++;
7               }
8               return i;
9       }
(gdb) b 6
Breakpoint 1 at 0x1c: file first.c, line 6.
(gdb) load first.o
Loading section .text, size 0x40 vma 0x0
Start address 0x0
Transfer rate: 512 bits in <1 sec.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/pro/armenv/bin/first.o


after 2 mins or so i interrupt with a Ctrl-C
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
0xf26ed660 in ?? ()
(gdb)


Sometimes when i ran it sometime back i got  " Unhandled v6 thumb
insn: e92d", i am not sure why i got this. But at that time path was
not exported properly.when i export it goes into infinite loop as show
above.



> > The second questions is
> > i built a mips-deb-linux helloworld program with cross gcc-glibc.
> >
> > not under mips-deb-linux-gdb
> >
> > the same program doesn't even load
> > it says vma something
>
> The MIPS simulator can not run Linux binaries.
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> CodeSourcery
>