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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 16:56:00 -0000
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
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In-Reply-To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
        "breakpoint for avr?" (May 14, 12:02pm)
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To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>, troth@verinet.com,
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Subject: Re: breakpoint for avr?
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On May 14, 12:02pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> Just noticed that the AVR target doesn't provide the BREAKPOINT_FROM_PC 
> method.
> 
> Up until now the architecture vector providing a default 
> breakpoint_from_pc (it would internal error for the AVR case). I 
> suspect, up until now, this hasn't been a problem because the AVR was 
> always remote.
> 
> Anyway, I've just posted a patch to always require breakpoint-from-pc 
> and this is causing the AVR grief.
> 
> So, is there a breakpoint instruction, or should GDB allow targets that 
> have no breakpoint at all?

Presumably, there's some other way of setting breakpoints?  Hardware
breakpoints for example?

If so, I think GDB should permit targets that have not breakpoint
instruction.

Kevin