Previously, exception stubs had to be declared in assembly
language files. Now we have two new APIs to regsiter exception
handlers at C toplevel:
_EXCEPTION_CONNECT_CODE(handler, vector)
_EXCEPTION_CONNECT_NOCODE(handler, vector)
For x86 exceptions that do and do not push error codes onto
the stack respectively.
In addition, it's now no longer necessary to #define around
exception registration. We now use .gnu.linkonce magic such that
the first _EXCEPTION_CONNECT_*() that the linker finds is used
for the specified vector. Applications are free to install their
own exception handlers which will take precedence over default
handlers such as installed by arch/x86/core/fatal.c
Some Makefiles have been adjusted so that the default exception
handlers in arch/x86/core/fatal.c are linked last. The code has
been tested that the right order of precedence is taken for
exceptions overridden in the floating point, gdb debug, or
application code. The asm SYS_NANO_CPU_EXC_CONNECT API has been
removed; it was ill- conceived as it only worked for exceptions
that didn't push error codes. All the asm NANO_CPU_EXC_CONNECT_*
APIs are gone as well in favor of the new _EXCEPTION_CONNNECT_*()
APIs.
CONFIG_EXCEPTION_DEBUG no longer needs to be disabled for test
cases that define their own exception handlers.
Issue: ZEP-203
Change-Id: I782e0143fba832d18cdf4daaa7e47820595fe041
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
The GDB server implements a set of GDB commands, such as read/write
memory, read/write registers, connect/detach, breakpoints, single-step,
continue. It is not OS-aware, and thus provides a 'system-level'
debugging environment, where the system stops when debugging (such as
handling a breakpoint or single-stepping).
It currently only works over a serial line, taking over the
uart_console. If target code prints over the console, the GDB server
intecepts them and does not send the characters directly over the serial
line, but rather wraps them in a packet handled by the GDB client.
Change-Id: Ic4b82e81b5a575831c01af7b476767234fbf74f7
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Walsh <benjamin.walsh@windriver.com>
Andrew Boie