Re: arm remote step using software breakpoints doesn't finish the step

[Bill Morgan <arthurwilliammorgan@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:42 AM Bill Morgan <arthurwilliammorgan@gmail.com>
wrote:

> For some reason GDB is setting breakpoints in an order that is causing a
> step to never finish.
>
> It sets a breakpoint at 0x22637fd0, then that breakpoint is hit, then sets
> one at 0x22637fd4, then that one is hit, then it puts one back at
> 0x22637fd0 again and the remote code runs until it loops back into this
> function again and fd0 is hit again, then sets bp at 0x22637fd4 again,
> etc., so the result is that the step never finishes.
>
> I'm wondering why it didn't set one at fd8.
>
> Any ideas?
>

I found an issue in my remote stub. I had multiple threads in the address
space with the breakpoint.

Thread 0x1f was current, but 0x1e was resuming first and hitting the
stepping breakpoint, so GDB kept trying to get 0x1f to hit the breakpoint
for the step.

I changed to always resume the current thread first so it has a chance to
hit the stepping breakpoint.