ARM register pages

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Thu Jun 9 21:16:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:14:11PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> On 6/9/05, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> > The easiest solution will be to do this instead:
> > abt:    [copy the banked address to lr, which is not useful at this
> >          point]
> > 1:      b 1b
> 
> If it's possible, I'd prefer to accomplish a backtrace without
> altering the target's code. I was hoping that "set $cpsr=0x1f" would
> make $lr_usr visible in $lr to gdb, but the value of $lr displayed by
> "i reg" remains the same. Does gdb cache the value of the register? Is
> there a way to force gdb to reload the value of the register from the
> remote target?

Oh, you mentioned that you were using 6.2.1.  That might cache the
value of the register.  Try newer.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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