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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>,
	"Krishnakumar. R" <krishnakumar@naturesoft.net>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Single stepping in mips
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 16:32:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030604143232.GF25456@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030604142548.GA19282@nevyn.them.org>

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:25:48AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> >  In a more finegrained but also more complicated example, you probably
> > want to insert a breakpoint in the delay slot first and at the second step
> > evaluate the branch's condition and put a breakpoint at the next
> > instruction to be executed.  I'm not sure if the current version of gdb
> > does the first step, but it inserts a single breakpoint in the second one
> > only.  For branch likely instructions adjust the two steps as necessary. 
> 
> Does that actually work reliably across MIPS processors?  I don't
> believe that it will.  I suppose you could re-execute the branch to get
> the delay slot executed...

It should.

  Ralf

      reply	other threads:[~2003-06-04 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-04  3:48 Single stepping in mips Krishnakumar. R
2003-06-04  5:18 ` Ralf Baechle
2003-06-04  5:37   ` Krishnakumar. R
2003-06-04  5:53     ` Ralf Baechle
2003-06-04 14:16       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-06-04 14:25         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-06-04 14:32           ` Ralf Baechle [this message]

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