Re: [RFA] Disable "remote_rdp_can_run"

[Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>]

> Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Happened across this.  It's not right.
> > >
> > > With this in place, if you have not attached to your rdp target
> > > (ie. by saying "target rdp"), but you instead just say "run",
> > > gdb will attempt to use the rdp target, which has not at this
> > > point been opened or initialized.  This is not the right way
> > > to make a remote target accept the "run" command.
> > >
> > > 2002-05-02  Michael Snyder  <msnyder@redhat.com>
> > >
> > >       * remote-rdp.c (remote_rdp_can_run): Return false.  This is
> > >       not a good work-around for making a remote target accept 'run'.
> > >
> > 
> > I'm not sure I understand this.  Shouldn't remote_rdp_can_run return 1
> > once the target has been attached?  If not, then I think the whole
> > function should be killed (so that we pick up the default behaviour).
> 
> Actually, I agree with the second statement (it sound be killed).
> If you want to have it return true once the target is attached, 
> you need some way of detecting that state (perhaps a global).
> I didn't bother to do that, because I don't like the idea.
> 
> This is the only remote target that tries to do this.
> I'd be glad to yank it if you say the word...

"The word"

R.