Re: [Openocd-development] Problem with GDB 6.8

[Ø. H. <oyv...@zy...>]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Spen <sp...@sp...> wrote:
>> > Also try the attached patch, which ignores read errors from
>> the target
>> > entirely, even if the address+length is nonsensical.
>>
>> Committed.
>>
>> gdb_report_data_abort now ignores all errors upon reading
>> target memory.
>>
>
> Not keen on this approach.

Me neither.

> Should we not try and trace the cause rather than accepting it?

I've already got bug reports out there to GDB.... not sure
what more we can do... I tried understanding these issues
in GDB, but they are very non-trivial.

>
> I did have similar problems with an older gdb turned out after further
> debugging the problem was caused by ld
>
> are there still issues when using gdb directly, rather than through gdbmi.
>
> Cheers
> Spen
>
>



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