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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Rahul Pande <rahul.pande@wipro.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: gdbserver on mips
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 22:53:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030707025343.GA15510@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52C85426D39B314381D76DDD480EEE0CDA556C@blr-m3-msg.wipro.com>

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:13:14PM +0530, Rahul Pande wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  
>  I am working on a AMD Au1500 based board and want some information. I
> am using the Linux 2.4.21pre. The problem happens when i run an
> application under "gdbserver" on the board, it does not allow me to
> single step into functions/code. The following error is displayed :
>                 "ptrace : Input/Output error". 
>  
> The  "ptrace.c" file under arch/mips/kernel/ does not have support for
> PTRACE_SINGLESTEP because of which the above error is occuring. I would
> like to know why single stepping support is not there for mips
> architecture under linux, whereas it is there for others like i386,
> alpha, arm etc ?

You're using too old of a GDB then.  It should not attempt to
single-step.

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Don't do that again.  Period.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-07  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-04 13:43 gdbserver on mips Rahul Pande
2003-07-04 13:43 ` Rahul Pande
2003-07-04 15:27 ` Ralf Baechle
2003-07-07  2:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]

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