Re: Single stepping in mips

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 09:18:01AM +0530, Krishnakumar. R wrote:

> How can we single step through an instruction 
> in mips architecture. 
> 
> In intel 386 architecture if we set TF flag
> of the EFLAGS register a trap will be generated
> after every instruction. Is there a way in 
> mips to do the same. 

On most MIPS processors there is no singlestepping feature.  You have to
manual insert a breakpoint into the instruction stream and deal with the
exception.

  Ralf