1 /* Simulate breakpoints by patching locations in the target system, for GDB.
3 Copyright (C) 1990-1993, 1995, 1997-2000, 2002, 2007-2012 Free
4 Software Foundation, Inc.
6 Contributed by Cygnus Support. Written by John Gilmore.
8 This file is part of GDB.
10 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
11 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
12 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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15 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
16 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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21 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
25 /* This file is only useful if BREAKPOINT_FROM_PC is set. If not, we
29 #include "breakpoint.h"
32 #include "gdb_string.h"
35 /* Insert a breakpoint on targets that don't have any better
36 breakpoint support. We read the contents of the target location
37 and stash it, then overwrite it with a breakpoint instruction.
38 BP_TGT->placed_address is the target location in the target
39 machine. BP_TGT->shadow_contents is some memory allocated for
40 saving the target contents. It is guaranteed by the caller to be
41 long enough to save BREAKPOINT_LEN bytes (this is accomplished via
45 default_memory_insert_breakpoint (struct gdbarch
*gdbarch
,
46 struct bp_target_info
*bp_tgt
)
49 const unsigned char *bp
;
52 /* Determine appropriate breakpoint contents and size for this address. */
53 bp
= gdbarch_breakpoint_from_pc
54 (gdbarch
, &bp_tgt
->placed_address
, &bp_tgt
->placed_size
);
56 error (_("Software breakpoints not implemented for this target."));
58 /* Save the memory contents in the shadow_contents buffer and then
59 write the breakpoint instruction. */
60 bp_tgt
->shadow_len
= bp_tgt
->placed_size
;
61 readbuf
= alloca (bp_tgt
->placed_size
);
62 val
= target_read_memory (bp_tgt
->placed_address
, readbuf
,
66 memcpy (bp_tgt
->shadow_contents
, readbuf
, bp_tgt
->placed_size
);
67 val
= target_write_raw_memory (bp_tgt
->placed_address
, bp
,
76 default_memory_remove_breakpoint (struct gdbarch
*gdbarch
,
77 struct bp_target_info
*bp_tgt
)
79 return target_write_raw_memory (bp_tgt
->placed_address
, bp_tgt
->shadow_contents
,
85 memory_insert_breakpoint (struct gdbarch
*gdbarch
,
86 struct bp_target_info
*bp_tgt
)
88 return gdbarch_memory_insert_breakpoint (gdbarch
, bp_tgt
);
92 memory_remove_breakpoint (struct gdbarch
*gdbarch
,
93 struct bp_target_info
*bp_tgt
)
95 return gdbarch_memory_remove_breakpoint (gdbarch
, bp_tgt
);