Re: AVR - invalid address used when evaluating a variable

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>]

On 2018-06-24 15:28, Christo wrote:
> I am testing the debugging of AVR microcontrollers over debugWIRE with
> gdb. When evaluating the
> value of a variable I noticed an incorrect value. On closer inspection
> I realized that gdb (8.1
> compiled for AVR support) was reading flash memory, not SRAM.  When I
> evaluate the pointer to
> the variable, gdb correctly reports the SRAM address. When reading the
> memory pointed to by this
> pointer the correct value is returned.  This leads me to postulate
> that there is a
> mistake/omission when gdb evaluates/prints a variable, resolve its
> address and then reads it
> from flash rather than SRAM.
> 
> Below a short excerpt of debugging a simple program with a variable
> "i" which the compiler
> located at address 0 in SRAM (which should be mapped to 0x800060,
> right after the io registers).
> The program was compiled with Freepascal and debugged using a
> debugWIRE server.  I've called
> "set debug remote 1" so that the rsp requests can be seen:
> 
> (gdb) print i
> Sending packet: $m60,1#30...Ack
> Packet received: 20
> $7 = 32 ' '
> (gdb) print &i
> $8 = (Byte *) 0x800060 <TC_sPsBLINK_ss_I> Sending packet: 
> $m800060,8#ff...Ack
> Packet received: 020003B8F6777DD2
> "\002"
> (gdb) print *&i
> Sending packet: $m800060,1#f8...Ack
> Packet received: 02
> $9 = 2 '\002'
> 
> Can anyone confirm this behaviour is indeed wrong/unexpected?

Hi Christo,

I am not proficient in Pascal.  Can you provide a test program, with all 
the command lines needed to reproduce?

Thanks,

Simon