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Re: Support for single-stepping Thumb-2 programs


At Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:36:45 -0400,
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> So the patch does not allow single stepping inside an IT block.  Not
> explicitly mentioned in the patch is that it also doesn't address
> setting breakpoints inside an IT block, which has the same problem.
> 
> My best plan to date to handle stepping is to reuse displaced stepping
> for this somehow.  Fill the rest of the IT block with breakpoints or
> nops to simulate just the instruction we're interested in.  As for
> user set breakpoints, I think we'll have to adjust them to point at
> the IT instruction instead.
> 
> I haven't implemented any of that yet.  This is generally useful
> as-is, so I'm submitting it without those potential improvements.

So ... shouldn't this be documented in the manual until you do
implement that single-stepping?


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