Hi Sprite_tm,
Is there any progress on this subject? I also posted this issue to Sysprogs , but they refer to Espressif as being the developer of gdb-stub. I hope you will continue your efforts resolving this issue.
Thanks.
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- Mon Nov 16, 2015 5:03 pm
- Forum: ESP8266 SDK
- Topic: esp-gdbstub: cannot step through code
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- Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:27 pm
- Forum: ESP8266 SDK
- Topic: esp-gdbstub: cannot step through code
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Re: esp-gdbstub: cannot step through code
I suppose the designers of gdbstub chose this default behaviour because the esp8266 has only one hardware breakpoint....an armprocessor has 5 hb's, so after hitting a breakpoint in ram or flash they are always able to continue single stepping using the next free hb, the esp8266 cannot...
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 9:43 pm
- Forum: ESP8266 SDK
- Topic: esp-gdbstub: cannot step through code
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Re: esp-gdbstub: cannot step through code
Hi there, First of all, great news there is a gdbstub available, it saves 4 IO pins. I have used VisualGdb and a jtag-device for debugging, but it was/is far from stable. To answer your question: It should be possible to single step through flash code, at least that was possible using jtag. First yo...