From: Antoine Tremblay <antoine.tremblay@ericsson.com>
To: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
Cc: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [gdbserver] Rename supports_conditional_breakpoints to supports_hardware_single_step
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 19:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55EF309E.8080201@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86fv2p6kyw.fsf@gmail.com>
On 09/08/2015 10:31 AM, Yao Qi wrote:
> Antoine Tremblay <antoine.tremblay@ericsson.com> writes:
>
> Hi Antoine,
>
>> Could we generalize this even more to supports_single_step like your
>> next patch ?
>>
>
> I am not sure.
>
>> Since I'm working on software single stepping for ARM, if this patch
>> goes in I'll need to implement a supports_software_single_step and
>> enable ConditionalBreakpoints for this case too...
>
> Nowadays, GDBserver only support conditional breakpoint for HW single
> step target. Whether GDBserver support conditional breakpoint for SW
> single step target is a separate issue, and we can decide this once we
> have SW single step in GDBserver.
>
Alright then, I'll base my patchset based on your patch and most likely
add a supports_software_single_step, if it's in by the time I post most
likely later this week...
> I believe GDBserver can compute the next instruction of $PC for SW
> single step, but GDBserver execution control (target independent part)
> will be more complicated if SW single step is involved in.
>
Execution control for software single step is already present in
GDBServer and working fine as far as I know...?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-08 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-01 8:42 [PATCH 0/2 V2] Support single step by arch or target Yao Qi
2015-09-01 8:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] [gdbserver] Rename supports_conditional_breakpoints to supports_hardware_single_step Yao Qi
2015-09-02 19:22 ` Antoine Tremblay
2015-09-03 15:13 ` Antoine Tremblay
2015-09-04 14:40 ` Antoine Tremblay
2015-09-04 15:04 ` Antoine Tremblay
2015-09-08 14:32 ` Yao Qi
2015-09-08 19:01 ` Antoine Tremblay [this message]
2015-09-09 15:37 ` Antoine Tremblay
2015-09-01 8:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] Support single step by arch or target Yao Qi
2015-09-01 13:18 ` Antoine Tremblay
2015-09-01 14:23 ` Yao Qi
2015-09-01 15:30 ` Antoine Tremblay
2015-09-01 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 14:46 ` Antoine Tremblay
2015-09-14 8:18 ` Yao Qi
2015-09-15 13:31 ` Pedro Alves
2015-09-15 13:11 ` [PATCH 0/2 V2] " Yao Qi
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