GDB support for mixed ARM9 V5 and thumb code

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 04:27:17PM +0100, Johan Thorb wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to use gdb 6.5 for target arm and on host Win/MinGW. I
> have compiled such a version, and I do get undeterministic behavior
> when using the debugger. I try to debug an elf file, which is to be
> eabi compliant. It is not compiled with gcc, and has a gdb-stub built
> in.
> 
> To rule out gdb problematics I have two questions:
> 1) Does GDB 6.5 support mixed ARM v5 and thumb instruction set binaries?

Yes.

> 2) What is the right compilation config parameters in this case?
>    I have tried the --target=arm-thumb-elf and  --target=arm-gdb-elf

The middle field doesn't matter.  Either of those should work, though
you probably want --target=arm-eabi.

> Could anyone please help me out in this matter?

You haven't told us anything about what goes wrong, so there's no other
help we can offer yet.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery