Re: gdb single step ?

[Ian Soanes <ians@lineo.com>]

Martin,

I seem to have confused everyone (including myself)...

I'm also talking about user mode... my references to the kernel stub
code only refer to the single_step() function... I borrowed and adapted
it for use in gdbserver... for user mode.

Sorry, I'll go and stand in the corner for a while...
Ian

Martin Rivers wrote:
> 
> Ian,
> 
> I'm confused.  The gdbserver stuff I gave you was all directed at user mode
> stuff too.  I don't do any kernel debug with gdbserver.
> 
> martin
> 
> >
> > Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I was speaking about gdb support in user mode, not the gdb stub in the
> > > kernel. Does someone use gdb to debug user space programs on linux-mips ?
> > > Maybe someone added the PTRACE_SINGLESTEP command of the ptrace syscall in
> > > recent mips kernel, but I do not have it in my kernel (linux-2.4.0 on sgi
> > > site).
> > >
> > > I patched gdb 5.0 so that single step on mips is correctly supported in
> > > user mode. I also modified gdbserver so that it works when you debug mips
> > > code in user mode.
> > >
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Hi Fabrice,
> >
> > I know you meant user mode... it's just that I had some success adapting
> > the kernel stub code for use in Martin's gdbserver for debugging user
> > mode code. I guess now we have 2 gdbservers :-)
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Ian