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1/* Simulate breakpoints by patching locations in the target system, for GDB.
2 Copyright 1990, 1991, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Contributed by Cygnus Support. Written by John Gilmore.
4
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7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
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12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 GNU General Public License for more details.
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17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
19 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
20 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
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22#include "defs.h"
23
24/* This file is only useful if BREAKPOINT is set. If not, we punt. */
25
26#include "symtab.h"
27#include "breakpoint.h"
28#include "inferior.h"
29#include "target.h"
30
31
32/* Use the program counter to determine the contents and size
33 of a breakpoint instruction. If no target-dependent macro
34 BREAKPOINT_FROM_PC has been defined to implement this function,
35 assume that the breakpoint doesn't depend on the PC, and
36 use the values of the BIG_BREAKPOINT and LITTLE_BREAKPOINT macros.
37 Return a pointer to a string of bytes that encode a breakpoint
38 instruction, stores the length of the string to *lenptr,
39 and optionally adjust the pc to point to the correct memory location
40 for inserting the breakpoint. */
41
42unsigned char *
43memory_breakpoint_from_pc (pcptr, lenptr)
44 CORE_ADDR *pcptr;
45 int *lenptr;
46{
47 /* {BIG_,LITTLE_}BREAKPOINT is the sequence of bytes we insert for a
48 breakpoint. On some machines, breakpoints are handled by the
49 target environment and we don't have to worry about them here. */
50#ifdef BIG_BREAKPOINT
51 if (TARGET_BYTE_ORDER == BIG_ENDIAN)
52 {
53 static unsigned char big_break_insn[] = BIG_BREAKPOINT;
54 *lenptr = sizeof (big_break_insn);
55 return big_break_insn;
56 }
57#endif
58#ifdef LITTLE_BREAKPOINT
59 if (TARGET_BYTE_ORDER != BIG_ENDIAN)
60 {
61 static unsigned char little_break_insn[] = LITTLE_BREAKPOINT;
62 *lenptr = sizeof (little_break_insn);
63 return little_break_insn;
64 }
65#endif
66#ifdef BREAKPOINT
67 {
68 static unsigned char break_insn[] = BREAKPOINT;
69 *lenptr = sizeof (break_insn);
70 return break_insn;
71 }
72#endif
73 *lenptr = 0;
74 return NULL;
75}
76
77
78/* Insert a breakpoint on targets that don't have any better breakpoint
79 support. We read the contents of the target location and stash it,
80 then overwrite it with a breakpoint instruction. ADDR is the target
81 location in the target machine. CONTENTS_CACHE is a pointer to
82 memory allocated for saving the target contents. It is guaranteed
83 by the caller to be long enough to save BREAKPOINT_LEN bytes (this
84 is accomplished via BREAKPOINT_MAX). */
85
86int
87memory_insert_breakpoint (addr, contents_cache)
88 CORE_ADDR addr;
89 char *contents_cache;
90{
91 int val;
92 unsigned char *bp;
93 int bplen;
94
95 /* Determine appropriate breakpoint contents and size for this address. */
96 bp = BREAKPOINT_FROM_PC (&addr, &bplen);
97 if (bp == NULL)
98 error ("Software breakpoints not implemented for this target.");
99
100 /* Save the memory contents. */
101 val = target_read_memory (addr, contents_cache, bplen);
102
103 /* Write the breakpoint. */
104 if (val == 0)
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107 return val;
108}
109
110
111int
112memory_remove_breakpoint (addr, contents_cache)
113 CORE_ADDR addr;
114 char *contents_cache;
115{
116 unsigned char *bp;
117 int bplen;
118
119 /* Determine appropriate breakpoint contents and size for this address. */
120 bp = BREAKPOINT_FROM_PC (&addr, &bplen);
121 if (bp == NULL)
122 error ("Software breakpoints not implemented for this target.");
123
124 return target_write_memory (addr, contents_cache, bplen);
125}