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Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 19:39:00 -0000
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Eliminate use of deprecated_register_bytes() from
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On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:59:21 -0700
Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com> wrote:

> Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> > I can think of no reason to continue to over-allocate space for g/G
> > packets in remote.c 
> 
> What if the target returns a longer string?

GDB will print a "Remote packet too long" message.

Do you know of any stubs which return a "g" packet containing pseudo
registers?

Kevin