Re: gdb function address

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>]

See: Re: New port: CRISv32
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2005-01/msg00243.html

Two things to take on board:
- CRISv32 watchpoints are implemented using register manipulations
- the refactoring (two choices) needed to get this integrated

The ARM highlights the reason why the refactoring is important.  The 
``old way'' was to hard wire specific watchpoint implementation using 
macros (for arm it was wired to the remote.c code) rendering any other 
watchpoint mechanism (such as yours for OCDRemote) useless.

Interested,
Andrew


Spen wrote:
> I am currently using gdb/insight to debug a arm7tdmi via OCDRemote
> GDBServer/TCP.
> The hardware breakpoints can be set as follows:
> monitor set hbreak 0x20000000 - which sets a hardware breakpoint @
> address 0x20000000.
>
> This method only gives access to a single breakpoint, the other used by
> ocdremote for stepping etc.
>
> The user command below is another method and gives access to both
> hardware breakpoints
>
> define ibreak
> monitor reg w$arg0av = $arg1
> monitor reg w$arg0am = 1
> monitor reg w$arg0dv = 0
> monitor reg w$arg0dm = 0xFFFFFFFF
> monitor reg w$arg0cv = 0x100
> monitor reg w$arg0cm = 0xFFFFFEF7
> end
>
> ibreak 0 0x20000000 - set breakpoint zero @ 0x20000000
>
> The drawback is that the breakpoint address needs to be known, is there
> any way to get behaiour similar to the standard break/hbreak commands,
> ie. break main. And resolve the function name into an address ?
>
> Many Thanks
> Spencer Oliver