32-bit Thumb-2 breakpoints
Daniel Jacobowitz
dan at debian.org
Mon Jan 11 19:22:01 EST 2010
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:17:28AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> And therefore, would it be possible to modify the CPSR when
> single-stepping to change the IT state so that the instruction
> following the next one, i.e. the breakpoint, is unconditional?
> So you only need one breakpoint after all.
Yes, I thought about doing this. However, the many combinations of
ways you'd have to restore the modified CPSR gave me a fright. I
don't think it's a robust solution. It's just different enough from
out-of-line stepping to be unable to share the code.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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