Re: [patch] Fix PR 13392 : check offset of JMP insn

[Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>]

On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 17:03 +0000, Pedro Alves wrote:
> We should send an error back to GDB with "E." instead of printing something
> to gdbserver's console, and leaving the user with a generic and
> unhelful error.  "4-byte" isn't strictly correct, as this is a signed
> offset, and I think we can be a bit more clear.  So we end up with:
> 
>       sprintf (err,
> 	       "E.Jump back from jump pad too far from tracepoint "
> 	       "(offset 0x%" PRIx64 " > int32).", loffset);
> 


In the gdb protocol documentation, all error replies but one
are described as E NN. Some of them specifies that NN are
hex digits.
The exception is the packet qTMinFTPILen:
the error reply is described as only an E
(this last sentence intentionnally not finished with a . :).

Is there somewhere a description of what an E. packet is,
and when this is allowed ?

Philippe