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Re: eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing


On 05.03.2012 10:49, John Dallaway wrote:
> Hi Tomas
>
> Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
>> On 05/03/12 08:30, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>>> On 04/03/12 19:37, John Dallaway wrote:
>>>> However, this success was achieved using arm-eabi-gdb 6.8.50.20080706.
>>>> There does appear to be an issue with the length of the 'g' packet when
>>>> using the new arm-eabi-gdb 7.3.1:
>>>>
>>>>> (gdb) tar rem /dev/ttyS0
>>>>> Remote debugging using /dev/ttyS0
>>>>> Remote 'g' packet reply is too long: e14e000810000000000000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000fccf0d6800000000e8cf0d6895680008e24e00080000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000021
>>>>> (gdb)
>>>> We will need to look into why the packet length has apparently changed
>>>> for Cortex-M targets. I can connect to an ARM7 target using the new GDB
>>>> without problem.
>>> This is a mismatch between the number of registers a gdb server reports
>>> and the number that gdb expects for the given architecture. In this case
>>> too many registers are being reported. IIRC, there should be 8 hex
>>> digits for a register, so the above string seems to represent 42
>>> registers instead of the 21 that Cortex-M has. Looks like a bug in the
>>> monitor stub code, or perhaps a work around for something broken in
>>> older toolchains?
>> Done bit further digging around the sources,
>> hal/cortexm/arch/.../cortexm_stub.h:64 defines 16 gpr, 8 fp or 12 bytes
>> each and 2 ps registers; this adds up to the 336 bytes of the above output.
> Yes. It looks like the FPA registers have been dropped from the default
> register set for Cortex-M targets in recent GDB. In the longer term, we
> should add a CDL option to our GDB stub code to accommodate this change.
> In the short term, I will look at creating a GDB target description file
> that we can use to accommodate the larger register set returned by our
> stubs.

Could the reason for this be because Cortex-M(4) uses VFP architecture
rather than FPA?
The FPU used on Cortex-M4 is FPv4-SP-d16
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0439c/BEHFGGGE.html

Ilija


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