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From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
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To: Robert Picco <Robert.Picco@hp.com>
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Subject: Re: new gdb remote packet type
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I'd investigate the qPart packet:
http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_33.html#SEC658
and how that, along with xfer_partial, can be extended to fetch an 
arbitrary part of /proc/PID/registers.

Andrew