[patch/RFA] multiarch INSTRUCTION_NULLIFIED

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Wed Dec 1 17:19:00 GMT 2004


On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:17:12AM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > Here's an off-the-cuff idea for you.  Could you actually skip the
> > nullified instruction, if you had a hook in the right place?  That is,
> > when a thread stops, if it is stopped at a nullified instruction,
> > forcibly move it to the next instruction before returning control to
> > GDB.
> 
> this is exactly what the instruction_nullified method that i added do :)

Could you do this at the end of the to_wait hook, if I provided a way
for the native target to override to_wait?  Oh, I guess it's an
architecture property, not a target property, so you'd need to do it
for remote stubs too.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz



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