sid debugger interface extension: step out-of-range packet support
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@cygnus.com
Tue Feb 12 22:10:00 GMT 2002
> Hi -
>
> A small amount of new code in sid/include and sid/component/gdb
> now allows gdb's "step out-of-range" packet ('e'/'E') to work with
> all sid-based simulator targets. This packet makes remote debugging
> potentially significantly faster, because it can replace a sequence of
> instruction single-step packets with just one new packet. This finally
> exercises J.T. Conklin's gdb-side extensions from roughly a year ago.
>
> There is a gdb bug that is exposed by this support. If a breakpoint
> placed on the current instruction, and another one on the next
> source line, then letting gdb "step" will stop at the next line, but
> won't let gdb realize that the second breakpoint was hit. (This is
> because gdb never inserted the breakpoints in gdb/infrun.c's proceed(),
> being unaware that remote_resume() meant something other than stepi.)
> This looks like this is a minor problem, but just in case, support for
> the packet may be forced off from the gdb side and/or from the sid side.
Just to be clear. I wouldn't rely to much on that current packet and/or
implementation. A number of issues with it have been pointed out with
it. Suggest looking through the archives.
Andrew
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