How to support interrupting a single step

Torsten Robitzki <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Sep 2019 17:24:56 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gdb.devel
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Hi,
I’m writing a debug server to support the debugging of an ARM Cortex M4 (nRF52) controller via SWD (Bluetooth LE debugger). I have a test program that contains an endless loop (loops over a systick counter with masked PendSV, SysTick interrupts [C_MASKINTS]). If I run that program (‚c‘ package) and interrupt the execution by ctrl-C (0x03) and try to single step through the program, I can’t get back onto the GDB prompt by cntr-C as I would expect.

I can see that GDB is sending sequences of ’s’ and ‚g‘ packages and from the content of the ‚g‘ I can see, that the $PC is moving. When I press ctrl-C, I can see that GDB is sending interrupts (0x03) to my debug stub, but as both, ’s’ and ‚g‘ are short running commands, there is no point in making them aware of an interrupt. Even if I would, I could tell, what the correct return values would be to make GDB stop sending `s` and `g` packages.

Any idea, on how to make „step“ in this scenario interruptable?

best regards,

Torsten

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