Question about debugging by GDB on Hifive1

[mwachs5 (Megan A. Wachs)]

Yes, I don’t usually use the run command, because we’re connecting to hardware that is already running. We can look into what GDB actually does with the run command and see how it translates to OpenOCD.

@chriszhang you may also want to refer to this other thread :

Problems w/ run_debug, run_openocd, run_gdb make targets w/ E300 Arty

I’m having issues getting openocd to do anything more than upload and run images on my Arty E300 board. The ‘make upload’ target executes successfully, but when I try ‘make run_debug’ using the same program image, gdb starts but the image exists with 0x0000003 as the exist code after a ‘unhandled trap’ message. 'make run_openocd appears to hang after loading the image. ‘make run_gdb’ starts gdb running, but none of the gdb commands seem to work correctly (eg, ‘run’ at the gdb prompt generates …