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Re: Implementation of different software breakpoint kinds in gdb server


On 10/18/2012 06:08 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
Offhand, the main issues with tracepoints on ARM are:

#1 - gdbserver needs to know how to step over the tracepoints, without gdb's intervention.

#2 - ARM can't hw single-step, so that needs to be done the hard way, with breakpoints
     (a.k.a., software single-step).
     All the logic to do that is in gdb.  This conflicts with #1.

So we'd need to teach gdbserver to software single-step.  Maybe it's possible
to tell offline all the possible destinations of an instruction, so we could still
leave that logic in gdb, but I suspect not.

I am wondering that it might be relatively easier to implement fast tracepoint in which step-over is not needed, if finding a jumppad is not a problem :)


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Yao


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