Re: GDB 5.0 won't build on GNU/Linux/sparc

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> On May 20, 2000, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@cygnus.com> wrote:
> 
> > On GNU/Linux/sparc, it builds correctly, but it still doesn't work
> > :-( child_resume is called with step==1, and aborts because
> > SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP_P is also 1.
> 
> This patch fixes this problem, and now it appears to work (not that I
> have tested it extensively!)
> 
> The problem was that, when resume issued the software single step
> command, it cleared `step'.  Later on, it would test whether step was
> zero and think it had been asked to `continue'.  Ok to install?
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Index: gdb/ChangeLog
> from  Alexandre Oliva  <aoliva@cygnus.com>
> 
>         * infrun.c (resume): Do not change continue to step if we single
>         step on software.

I think this one needs more testing (wfi is dangerous at the best of
times).
Does anyone with one of the other targets with SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP_P=1
see this problem (wince, rs6000?, sunos4?).

(Alexandre, can you provide a concrete example as a reference point).

	Andrew