From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Kingdon To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Fix Irix core dumps Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:07:00 -0000 Message-id: <3A93147E.81405280@engr.sgi.com> References: <200102092321.SAA05354@panix3.panix.com> <3A91C2EF.83BB492F@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00408.html Andrew Cagney wrote: > > Reading a core dump on Irix has bit-rotted > > I'm checking this in (indented slightly different) Great! Nick also checked in my BFD patch - http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-02/msg00454.html in case anyone cares - so I was able to do a cvs update, rebuild, and things work. > I'm pretty sure it will affect GDBs ability to communicate with some > obscure remote target (what register_raw_size() returns changed :-/) Yes, well as you point out hacking on register_raw_size to change the behavior of remote.c is a kludge and should go away. Whether to send float registers, for example, or what size to send the registers as, isn't really even a target-arch thing as such. Seems like it should be negotiated or self-describing in the protocol itself (maybe with user-settable options if needed).