On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:31:27AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Working on gdb I discovered a weird behaviour of my DS5000/240 -- under
> unspecified circumstances there were spurious breakpoint traps happening
> and some single-step breakpoints appeared persistent. The following patch
> fixes these problems, making gdb fully reliable.
>
> Besides obvious bugfixes, it introduces two significant changes. First,
> flush_icache_page() now performs what the name suggests, i.e. flushes the
> instruction cache. Without this change ptrace(PTRACE_POKE*, ...) calls
> are unreliable. Second, it changes the assumption of the icache line size
> to a single word -- apparently, at least R3400 of DS5000/240 has an icache
> with such a layout (DEC docs confirm it, indeed). Without this change,
> there are problems with breakpoints placed at addresses equal 4 modulo 8.
>
> I vote for an immediate inclusion of these fixes.
Looks good unless one of the R3000 gurus objects, so I'll add this right
after my ac21 commit finishes.
Ralf
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