Re: [EXT] Re: Context switch during stepping causes weird behavior

Hi Adrian,


On 10/12/22 07:46, Adrian Oltean via Gdb wrote:
> Thanks guys. Looks like displaced stepping is off by default when GDB is running
> in all-stop mode - my case. So I'll have to look for other ways to work around
> the behavior I described.

That is a bit misleading. It used to be the case it was only used for non-stop mode, but
nowadays it is supported if the underlying target supports it.

I don't think Arm (As in arm-none-elf, I'm assuming this is the case here) supports it, but when
debugging linux-hosted Arm binaries, then it is supported.

See gdb/infrun.c:gdbarch_supports_displaced_stepping.
> 
> Adrian
> 
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>> On 10/5/22 09:53, John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know off the top of my head if there is a knob to disable
>>> displaced stepping.
>> FYI:
>>
>> (gdb) apropos displaced
>> set debug displaced -- Set displaced stepping debugging.
>> set displaced-stepping -- Set debugger's willingness to use displaced stepping.
>> show debug displaced -- Show displaced stepping debugging.
>> show displaced-stepping -- Show debugger's willingness to use displaced
>> stepping.
>>
>> Keith
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