Re: Single stepping remote targets can miss breakpoints

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From: Andrew Cagney
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 17:30

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> While chasing the cause of a failure in the gdb testsuite, in the
> break.exp tests, I've found that there is a significant difference
> between how native targets and remote targets handle single stepping.
> Since I've not previously done a lot of work with remote targets, I
> didn't realize this fundamental difference existed.
> 
> It is causing a failure in the part of break.exp that checks that you
> can set a breakpoint on the next line, and then when you single step
> at the source level, that breakpoint gets hit:


I think this has been, er, resolved.  The step out of range packet is 
disabled by default in GDB 5.2.

Andrew

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