Re: [RFA] gdb-comm.exp: set breakpoints after load

[Jie Zhang]

On 01/21/2010 06:32 AM, Ben Elliston wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 04:05:26PM +0800, Jie Zhang wrote:
>
> > gdb-comm.exp sets breakpoints on exit and abort before load. The
> > problem is that GDB tries to skip prologue according to what it
> > reads from memory, which might contain random data since the
> > executable has not been loaded into memory. In my case, sometimes
> > skip_prologue might skip one or two more instructions, which happens
> > to be an exception instruction and will trap the processor into an
> > exception event loop after running the executable before hit the
> > breakpoints. The attached patch changes gdb-comm.exp to set
> > breakpoints after load.
>
> OK, thanks.
Just for the record. I told Ben privately that I had no write permission 
for dejagnu git tree. So Ben has kindly committed this patch for me.


Jie