Re: mcore registers

Andrew Cagney
2003-09-30T15:40:41Z

>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> writes:
>
>
> >> I had planned on eventually implementing the run-length encoding
> >> (using the '*' symbol). All of the non-existent registers just
> >> get reported as containing zeroes, so RLL would compress this
> >> consistently....
>
> Andrew> Ok. Note that GDB doesn't run length encode.
>
> Curious... I turned it on (with gdb 5.3, x86 host, mips target) and it
> worked for me. Helps a lot, too.

Let me try again. GDB won't, as far as I know, run-length-encode packets
that it sends to the target. It will happily accept run-length-encoded
packets the target sends to it though.

Andrew