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List:       gdb
Subject:    Re: si: Cannot access memory at address 0xeafffff4
From:       Daniel Jacobowitz <drow () false ! org>
Date:       2005-04-24 22:32:28
Message-ID: 20050424223228.GA14252 () nevyn ! them ! org
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On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 11:19:51AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:04:54 -0700
> > From: Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com>
> > 
> > What is gdb doing here that it wants to read the target's memory?
> > 
> > (gdb) si
> > Cannot access memory at address 0xeafffff4
> > (gdb)
> 
> Can it be that it's reading the next instruction?

Probably.  This is ARM; most ARM debugging stubs do not offer a
single-step operation, so without hardware singlestep we need to read
the current PC in order to determine the next PC.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

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