break instruction does not work for mips simulator
Andrew Cagney
cagney@gnu.org
Tue Aug 10 15:27:00 GMT 2004
> Hi
>
> 'Break' instruction does not work for mips32 and mips16 targets in a
> user program (asm file). When I try to execute 'break'instruction, the
> control does not proceed, again and again the same instruction 'break'
> executes and also I don't get any break point exception.
>
> Is it any known bug in GDB?
This behavior is to be expected. Since GDB didn't insert the breakpoint
it has no reason to remove/skip it.
You can set:
handle SIGTRAP pass noprint nostop
and GDB will pass such traps back to the inferior, however, no guarantee
on what happens next.
Andrew
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