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Re: add bare_board variable

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 05:18:56PM +0100, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> >Do you think that start should work for remote targets, and be
> >equivalent to "tbreak main; continue" instead of "tbreak main; run"?
> >Or maybe it should issue an error instead of trying to run?
> 
> Although 'tbreak main; continue' would be nice, it'll only work after a 
> load, otherwise the state won't be right.  Or, can gdb pull the entry point 
> address out of the current file and do 'tbreak main; j *<addr>' ?

It could... but who knows where you'd end up?  We've seen that
sometimes more of a reset is needed.  I guess we should make it issue a
sensible error, and allow the test to pass when it sees that error.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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