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From: Ian Soanes <ians@lineo.com>
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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