Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] Deprecate/rename singlestep command line option, monitor interfaces

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On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 at 17:40, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The command line option '-singlestep' and its HMP equivalent
> the 'singlestep' command are very confusingly named, because
> they have nothing to do with single-stepping the guest (either
> via the gdb stub or by emulation of guest CPU architectural
> debug facilities). What they actually do is put TCG into a
> mode where it puts only one guest instruction into each
> translation block. This is useful for some circumstances
> such as when you want the -d debug logging to be easier to
> interpret, or if you have a finicky guest binary that wants
> to see interrupts delivered at something other than the end
> of a basic block.

I'm going to take this series via target-arm.next since
I'm doing a pullreq anyway.

thanks
-- PMM




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