Hmm, tabs fubar -- I'll try again with the patch as an attachment. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Snyder" To: "GDB Patches" Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 3:55 PM Subject: [rfa] Restore "trust-readonly-section" > This seems to have succumbed to bit-rot -- there are new target-read > functions > in target.c that don't pay any attention to this user-settable mode bit. > > The purpose of "trust-readonly-sections" is to improve speed on > targets where reading memory is expensive (mostly remote). > It checks to see if a read is from a read-only section, and if so, > reads it from the exec file. It defaults to "off" for safety, but if > users choose to use it, it really speeds up prologue analysis > (and therefore stepping). > > This patch just makes it work again.