From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Jeff Holcomb <jeffh@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] monitor.c fix for rom68k target boards
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:58:00 -0000
Message-id: <3AC4F369.39725D8D@cygnus.com>
References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.1010329214948.571m-100000@cse.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00561.html

Jeff Holcomb wrote:
> 
> This patch allows gdb to work with rom68k target boards once again (it's
> been broken for a year and a half apparently).
> 
> I don't think the routine needs to care about checking for termination of
> the string.  In the case of this monitor, the SR is returned as
> "2700-tfSm.111...xnzvc" for example.  Before Jason's change to this
> routine, it used strtoul which ended the matching at the first non
> digit.  Jason changed it to work with values larger than 'long' so it's
> now a hand-coded loop to gather the digits.

So the old code would just return with ``p'' pointing to one char beyond
the hex digit?

	Andrew