Re: powerpc: fork && stepping (Was: [RFC,PATCH 0/14] utrace/ptrace)

[Andreas Schwab]

Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I believe gdb has code to recognize this kind of sequence and run
> through it without stopping until after the bne, precisely to avoid
> this problem.

See gdb/rs6000-tdep.c:ppc_deal_with_atomic_sequence.

Andreas.

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