Re: GDB single-step fails on alpha (Re: CVS commit: src/share/mk)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Dec 7, 12:28pm, rokuyama%rk.phys.keio.ac.jp@localhost (Rin Okuyama) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: GDB single-step fails on alpha (Re: CVS commit: src/share/mk)

| Hmm, this is an intended behavior rather than a bug; GCC strictly
| generates the line number statements in the single-instruction level.
| I wonder whether it is useful, but it might be another matter...

It is...

| You probably mean this commit:
| 
|    http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/gpl3/gdb/dist/gdb/alphanbsd-tdep.c#rev1.12
| 
| where single stepping for dynamically linked binaries was fixed. But
| this problem of breakpoint has been untouched yet.

Yes, right.

christos