Re: [Qemu-devel] Help with gdb on Mac OS

[Pierre d'Herbemont <pdherbemont@free.fr>]

On 12 févr. 07, at 07:54, Ilya Shar wrote:

> I am trying to step through i386-darwin-user/qemu-i386
>
> Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not
> access memory.
> Reason: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at address: 0x2115eaf5
> helper_cmpxchg8b () at ../cpu-all.h:344
> 344         ((uint32_t *)ptr)[0] = x.p[0];
> (gdb)
>
> The offending value of ptr is misalligned, can this
> indicate a problem?  Reducing optimization or setting
> -g3 doesn't change this behavior.  Strangely, the same
> example runs fine without gdb.

qemu will handle the signal fine. Actually it is more a feature than  
a bug ;-)

Unfortunately
"(gdb) handle EXC_BAD_ACCESS pass"
is kind of broken as EXC_BAD_ACCESS is not translated to the  
corresponding bsd signal, so qemu won't handle it.

You should probably try to use the gdb interface provided by qemu if  
you wan't to debug the target program instead of qemu:
# i386-darwin-user/qemu-i386 -g /bin/ls

You can now connect to the gdb interface using:
#gdb -arch i386
(gdb) target remote localhost:1234
(gdb) c

Pierre.