Remote Debugging with NEXT Command
Ken Mandelberg
km@mathcs.emory.edu
Tue Jun 10 21:02:00 GMT 2014
I'm doing remote gdb deugging to a stub implemented on the target over
tcp. SI works and NEXT works well enough skipping over a function call.
What can be very slow is NEXT from one C statement to the next.
When NEXT skips over a function call it implements it by setting a
breakpoint at the return address.
When NEXT skips from one C statement to the next, it does it by doing
repeated SI's. This forces the target to send back a bunch of state at
each SI. This is slow and very slow if the C statement actually has a
loop in it.
Is there any way around this other than carefully avoiding NEXT in the
worst cases and manually setting breakpoints/CONT?
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