phycore_mpc5554 idle thread exits when GDB invoked

[Sebastian Huber]

On 2014-05-30 15:03, Peter Dufault wrote:
> On the Phytec MPC5554 with the current head as of yesterday I'm having funny problems with GDB and the McGraigor wiggler.  I don't need to use this setup that often so everything has changed since I last used it: GCC, GDB, RTEMS, the version of Linux, the McGraigor driver...  So I'm at basic principles.
>
> If I just start the program, interrupt with ^C, and continue it exits.
>
> I start, hit ^C, and enter GDB.  I'm in the idle thread, as you would expect.  I have a hardware breakpoint set in bsp_reset(), which is the fatal handler.  This "c" below is the initial setup and will start the program.  Then I type the ^C:
> ====
> (gdb) c
> Continuing.
> ^C
> Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
> bsp_idle_thread (arg=0x0)
>      at ../../../../../../../../rtems/c/src/lib/libbsp/powerpc/mpc55xxevb/startup/idle-thread.c:30
> 30	    mpc55xx_wait_for_interrupt();
> (gdb)
> ====
>
> Now when I continue I will hit the breakpoint in bsp_reset:

Maybe the debugger has a problem with the wait instruction?

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