From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] breakpoint and single step on ARM
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 04:56:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b50e1a5d1f3b73cac0cfa53a5d466b0f@mikro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13dbd358d0ecb7bc8abff3c73c616ce1@hamnavoe.com>
On Sat Aug 3 16:28:26 EDT 2013, 9fans@hamnavoe.com wrote:
> A couple of patches applied yesterday should make debugging on ARM a
> bit more reliable. Using db or acid on ARM, you may have noticed that
> a program being debugged would sometimes execute through a breakpoint
> without stopping, or run away while being single stepped. It turns out,
> as often happens, that one symptom had two separate causes. For details:
> /n/sources/patch/applied/5db-condcode/readme
> /n/sources/patch/applied/arm-bkpt-cond/readme
>
> To take advantage of the patches, rebuild libmach.a, then acid and db.
> On machines with a kw kernel (sheevaplug et al), you'll also want to
> rebuild /arm/9plug; otherwise breakpoints will stop working at all.
> The new 9plug will, however, still work with the old libmach; and
> the bcm and teg2 kernels are already compatible with the new libmach.
thanks!
- erik
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