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From: Antoine Tremblay <antoine.tremblay@ericsson.com>
To: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Newsome <tim@sifive.com>,
	Antoine Tremblay	<antoine.tremblay@ericsson.com>,
	gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: read target register to decide breakpoint size
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wwokd1gunzr8.fsf@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161214172222.GK25542@E107787-LIN>


Yao Qi writes:

> On 16-12-14 09:01:53, Tim Newsome wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you, sounds like reading MISA from kind_from_pc should work out
>> fine then (unless Yao has an objection we didn't consider).
>
> You can't set breakpoint without the live inferior in this way.
>
> ./gdb a.out
> (gdb) b main

I wonder if GDB could fallback to ELF if the register can't be read ?

Not sure how that would be done...


      reply	other threads:[~2016-12-14 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-18 23:44 Tim Newsome
2016-11-19  1:16 ` Ofir Cohen
2016-11-21 16:37 ` Antoine Tremblay
2016-11-21 18:00   ` Tim Newsome
2016-12-13 20:58     ` Tim Newsome
2016-12-13 21:30       ` Tim Newsome
2016-12-14  9:18         ` Yao Qi
2016-12-14 12:32           ` Antoine Tremblay
2016-12-14 17:02             ` Tim Newsome
2016-12-14 17:22               ` Yao Qi
2016-12-14 18:15                 ` Antoine Tremblay [this message]

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