From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: GDB Discussion <gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP_P and multi-arch
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 17:23:00 -0000
Message-id: <3A2C4141.B3C2F486@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2000-12/msg00018.html

Hello,

At present there are two macros that control software stepping:

	SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP_P()

and 	SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP(sig, insert_or_remove)

I'd like to suggest the following:

Rename SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP_P() to TARGET_SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP_P() and
add it to the *target* vector.

	Hardware single step support (implied
	by !TARGET_SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP_P())
	is target and not ISA/ABI dependant.

	Some ISAs might support hardware single
	step but the actual target may not
	(lousy OS support, limited stub functionality)

Make SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP Multi arch.
	(and I don't like it but I can't think
	of a better incremental move :-)

	While I think SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP()
	should be replaced by code that creates
	temp breakpoints and adds them to
	the breakpoint database (gdb would
	later pull them directly) I don't want
	to try and also do that.

	The way software single step is
	currently implemented is just ulgh...

Thoughts/comments?

	Andrew