[PATCH] Only use 32-bit thumb-2 breakpoint instruction if necessary

Yao Qi qiyaoltc@gmail.com
Wed May 3 08:04:00 GMT 2017


Antoine Tremblay <antoine.tremblay@ericsson.com> writes:

> Yes at first I though what's the harm in allowing different breakpoint
> kinds on an address ?

There is nothing harmful, IMO.  It is a matter of complexity.

>
> But looking at the code that introduced the check there seems to be complex
> reasons for that.
>
>>I would like to change GDBserver code, and fix the regressions caused
>> by the change.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean ? You want to take over this issue ? (not a
> problem with me)

No, I have no plan to take this issue over.  I mean, if I were you, I'd
start from change GDBserver code, fix the regressions, etc.

>
> I think we may forget this change for 8.0 however... ?

I feel it is difficult to catch 8.0 release, as there are still some open
problems that we don't have ideas yet.

-- 
Yao (齐尧)



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