Withdrawn: JDK-8305782: Provide MacroAssembler::breakpoint on aarch64

Thomas Stuefe stuefe at openjdk.org
Fri Apr 28 15:53:57 UTC 2023


On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 07:45:46 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The ability to emit debug traps was useful for me on arm, and I miss it on aarch64.
> 
> Tested manually on Linux aarch64 in gdb with various values for hint covering the whole 16-bit range set. Hint gets encoded in the instruction (gdb decodes instruction as "BRK xxx" with xxx being the hint). According to documentation the hint ends up in ESR.ELx.ISS after the trap hit, but gdb refused to display the ESR register, so I could not verify that.

This pull request has been closed without being integrated.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13401


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