AVR - invalid address used when evaluating a variable

[Christo]

I am testing the debugging of AVR microcontrollers over debugWIRE with gdb. When evaluating the
value of a variable I noticed an incorrect value. On closer inspection I realized that gdb (8.1
compiled for AVR support) was reading flash memory, not SRAM. Â When I evaluate the pointer to
the variable, gdb correctly reports the SRAM address. When reading the memory pointed to by this
pointer the correct value is returned. Â This leads me to postulate that there is a
mistake/omission when gdb evaluates/prints a variable, resolve its address and then reads it
from flash rather than SRAM.

Below a short excerpt of debugging a simple program with a variable "i" which the compiler
located at address 0 in SRAM (which should be mapped to 0x800060, right after the io registers).
The program was compiled with Freepascal and debugged using a debugWIRE server. Â I've called
"set debug remote 1" so that the rsp requests can be seen:

(gdb) print i
Sending packet: $m60,1#30...Ack
Packet received: 20
$7 = 32 ' '
(gdb) print &i
$8 = (Byte *) 0x800060 <TC_sPsBLINK_ss_I> Sending packet: $m800060,8#ff...Ack
Packet received: 020003B8F6777DD2
"\002"
(gdb) print *&i
Sending packet: $m800060,1#f8...Ack
Packet received: 02
$9 = 2 '\002'

Can anyone confirm this behaviour is indeed wrong/unexpected?