Re: arm linux with gdb

From: Fred Viles (fv+abuse_at_nospam.epitools.com)
Date: 07/26/03 

Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 06:06:43 GMT

"Tauno Voipio" <tauno.voipio@iki.fi.SPAMBAIT_REMOVE.invalid> wrote
in news:LHeOa.116$Ai4.19@read3.inet.fi:

>...
> The problem I had with ARM remote GDB is that it assumes
> hardware breakpoints. A source level patch is needed to change
> to software breakpoints.

Really? That's odd, I found the exact opposite when configuring GDB
5.3 with --target=arm-elf. I had to make changes to
config/arm/tm-embed.h to get GDB to believe that "target remote"
targets support hardware breakpoints and allow the hbreak command to
be used.

- Fred

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