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Re: V850 breakpoint support
- To: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: V850 breakpoint support
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 16:36:06 +1000
- CC: gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <XFMail.000508081303.gthomas@redhat.com>
Gary Thomas wrote:
>
> The attached patches are required in order to support breakpoint
> on the NEC/V850 (not V850e). The major complication is that this
> processor has variable length instructions (16, 32 bits) and the
> "official" illegal instruction [normally used for breakpoints] is
> 32 bits. Since GDB doesn't handle this very well, an alternate
> solution involving a useless instruction "br *" was chosen.
Yep fine. Thanks for this one.
Andrew