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Re: SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP_P and multi-arch
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP_P and multi-arch
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 14:39:50 +0000
- Cc: GDB Discussion <gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Cc: rearnsha at arm dot com
- Organization: ARM Ltd.
- Reply-To: rearnsha at arm dot com
ac131313@cygnus.com said:
> Make SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP Multi arch.
> (and I don't like it but I can't think
> of a better incremental move :-)
> While I think SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP()
> should be replaced by code that creates
> temp breakpoints and adds them to
> the breakpoint database (gdb would
> later pull them directly) I don't want
> to try and also do that.
> The way software single step is
> currently implemented is just ulgh...
It also doesn't work with INSTRUCTION_NULLIFIED, which is a pity, since on
the ARM we really want both.
R.