Re: software single step - feature request

[Quality Quorum <qqi@theworld.com>]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> > Hi,
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> > There are a few nits associated with soft single step support, which are
> > easy to work around but annoying enough to justify a fix.
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> Your not alone.  This is taken from gdbarch.sh:
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> ...

So, there is a hope then that it will be implemented one day.

I am wondering, whether all items below will see the light one day ?

> > 1. Soft single step is configured per platform (e.g. arm-wince has one
> >    and generic arm does not), IMHO, it should be provided on per CPU
> >    basis.
> >
> > 2. It has to be provided for every CPU - may be as part of multi-arch
> >    transition.
> >
> > 3. It should be run-time configurable - so it should be possible to
> >    use the same gdb image both with and without soft single step.
> >
> > 4. If target supports hw single step it should be possible to configure
> >    removal of breakpoints before stepping.
>
> see gdb/120

I am sorry I am not that deeply involved into gdb development.

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Thanks,

Aleksey