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Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 19:44:27 +0400
From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Two patches - ptrace single stepping + modpost.c
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On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 12:58:53PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> Other architectures which use similar schemes (eg, alpha) might also
> like this; it looks like Alpha may be a little buggy; it appears
> to carry the single stepping status across signal handling.  What
> happens if the debugger decides to disable single stepping when
> the debugged process receives a signal?

Alpha was buggy, indeed. Hopefully fixed in current bk.
However, we don't need special flag for single stepping - we use
thread_info->bpt_nsaved as such flag.

Ivan.