From: Joseph Altmaier <joseph.altmaier@gmail.com>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: sid@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Problem Halting Execution
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 16:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikq3YXgzDvrKA-90fqHFRqhWN8GhYWrxZvPVJ-a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100528155817.GF25135@redhat.com>
I'm trying to hand control to GDB. I have looked at other ports and I
have not seen where they do this, but I must have missed something.
Joseph
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi -
>
>> I'm writing a SID port, and I can't get it to halt properly.
>
> What kind of halt do you want exactly? A simulator termination?
> Handing of control to gdb?
>
>> What is the functionality of yield()?� It does not seem to stop
>> instruction flow.
>
> It should end the step_insn() loop soon and return.
>
>> When yield() is called step_insns() will return after the break at
>> the end of the loop but then it gets called again. [...]
>
> Yes, unless told otherwise, the scheduler that's driving the cpu
> instruction steps will signal again to continue running.
>
> - FChE
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-28 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-28 15:36 Joseph Altmaier
2010-05-28 15:58 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2010-05-28 16:12 ` Joseph Altmaier [this message]
2010-05-28 16:20 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
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