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questions about s/w and h/w breakpoint in GDB
- From: "The Westlakers" <westlakers at gmail dot com>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Cc: "The Westlakers" <westlakers at gmail dot com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:35:25 -0800
- Subject: questions about s/w and h/w breakpoint in GDB
Greeting!
I have couple of questions regarding gdb with remote target in Sparc:
1) how to configure the gdb to issue an h/w breakpoint?
2) in software breakpoint, gdb 'cont' command will issue this
following serial protocol commands
after setting breakpoint, say at location of 0x50c57c:
- Z0,50c57c
- Hc0
- C11
- c
- g
- z0,50c57c
then the target return SIGSTOP, gdb stops at prompt, the target stops
at 0x50c57c and
then we type gdb command 'cont' again, it issues the following commands:
- m50c57c
- Z0,50c580
- Hc1
- C11
- c
- g
- z0,50c580
sounds like gdb implements the s/w bp as:
insert bp, exec, insert step-bp and exec.
Do we have to type two 'cont' to make one single exec of the breakpoint?
what is the right behavior from the target?
Thanks
Jesse