Re: Random SIGILL / SIGSEGV on ARMv7 while debugging ?

[Antoine Tremblay <antoine dot tremblay at ericsson dot com>]

On 11/20/2015 04:11 AM, Yao Qi wrote:
> Antoine Tremblay <antoine.tremblay@ericsson.com> writes:
>
> I didn't see any SIGILL/SIGSEGV in my testing.
>
> > Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
> > 0xb6fd99e2 in ?? () from target:/lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
> > (gdb) FAIL: gdb.trace/change-loc.exp: Can't run to main to check for
> > trace support
>
> Did you see SIGILL with vanilla GDB or GDB with your tracepoint patches?

I tested both and the problem was present with vanilla too :

gdb --version
GNU gdb (Ubuntu 7.9-1ubuntu1) 7.9


> You can turn on debugging output, like "set debug infrun 1" and "set
> debug remote 1", and you may find some clues from them.

Yes I did that with gdbserver --debug and compared the output from a 
successful run with a failed run and there was no change.

This leads me to suspect the problem is not gdb/gdbserver. Especially 
since the Pi2 with the same gdb/gdbserver does not have the problem.

I'm guessing from your answer you've never seen that in your tests...

I think I'll have to work around it by using an other board, I'm looking 
at the testing the firefly one now : 
http://en.t-firefly.com/en/firenow/firefly_rk3288/

If ever you have another suggestion of a powerful ARMv7 board with eMMC 
storage that you know works well it's quite welcome.

Thank you,
Antoine