Re: RFC: Run length encoding bug in remote.c?

Andrew Cagney
2001-08-10T00:28:00Z

> On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:11:25AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>> > The patch below makes that change. Though this works (tested with
>> > "print *current" in gdb) and looks sensible to me, I have a feeling that
>> > this error should show up quite often for other people as well, since it
>> > would happen every time the response to an 'm' packet ends with
>> > run-length encoding of the data.
>
>>
>>
>> I don't know that many targets use run-length incoding and hence,
>> probably few have noticed the bug.
>
>
> For reference, and for amusement at the synchronicity, we ran into this
> again today on a Hitachi SH firmware stub; I'll second the patch.

In that case, it should probably also go on the 5.1 branch.

Andrew