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Re: Breakpoints in delay slots

From: Andrew STUBBS <andrew dot stubbs at st dot com>
To: Michael Snyder <Michael dot Snyder at palmsource dot com>
Cc: GDB List <gdb at sourceware dot org>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:52:30 +0100
Subject: Re: Breakpoints in delay slots
References: <453608FC.2040201@st.com> <1161197474.9942.11.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Michael Snyder wrote:

Sorry to be terse, but...

(1) -O0

Actually it can still happen that the first instruction in a line is the nop in the delay slot, but that can be considered a compiler bug.

(2) "Don't do that".

That's hardly the developer's choice.

In the real world people sometimes have to debug optimised code and "don't do it" is not a useful answer.

Andrew

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