From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18044 invoked by alias); 30 Sep 2003 15:40:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 18029 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2003 15:40:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 2003 15:40:40 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF2F2B89; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:40:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F79A3F7.8090207@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:40:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Koning Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, LaPonsey Brian-ra4951 Subject: Re: mcore registers References: <15BB35FC418BD511868500D0B7B916B108A35018@zuk07exm02.sps.mot.com> <3F79974E.4070203@redhat.com> <16249.41628.855183.792961@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00658.txt.bz2 >>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Cagney writes: > > > >> I had planned on eventually implementing the run-length encoding > >> (using the '*' symbol). All of the non-existent registers just > >> get reported as containing zeroes, so RLL would compress this > >> consistently.... > > Andrew> Ok. Note that GDB doesn't run length encode. > > Curious... I turned it on (with gdb 5.3, x86 host, mips target) and it > worked for me. Helps a lot, too. Let me try again. GDB won't, as far as I know, run-length-encode packets that it sends to the target. It will happily accept run-length-encoded packets the target sends to it though. Andrew