Re: Problem Halting Execution

I'm trying to hand control to GDB.  I have looked at other ports and I
have not seen where they do this, but I must have missed something.

Joseph

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi -
>
>> I'm writing a SID port, and I can't get it to halt properly.
>
> What kind of halt do you want exactly?  A simulator termination?
> Handing of control to gdb?
>
>> What is the functionality of yield()?� It does not seem to stop
>> instruction flow.
>
> It should end the step_insn() loop soon and return.
>
>> When yield() is called step_insns() will return after the break at
>> the end of the loop but then it gets called again. [...]
>
> Yes, unless told otherwise, the scheduler that's driving the cpu
> instruction steps will signal again to continue running.
>
> - FChE
>