From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Orjan Friberg , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFC: Run length encoding bug in remote.c? Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:28:00 -0000 Message-id: <3B738CF4.2070007@cygnus.com> References: <3B714363.F2A28837@axis.com> <3B73891D.50209@cygnus.com> <20010810001509.A18544@nevyn.them.org> X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00105.html > 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