From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>,
dgraham@nortel.com
Subject: Re: RFC: Do not try g-packet-guess algorithm on exited targets
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49346036.6060204@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081123211454.GA17391@caradoc.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> We got a bug report indicating that gdbserver --multi didn't work on
> MIPS. We'd connect to the target, try to read the XML description -
> gdbserver reports an error because there's no process yet - and then
> try to guess the description from the g packet length instead. Of
> course we can't do that; there's no process yet.
>
> This patch fixes the problem. We try qXfer on connection, then try
> 'g' only if (A) there was no XML description, and (B) there is a
> running process, and (C) we are not in non-stop mode; assume that
> non-stop targets can provide a description explicitly.
Just curious -- how do you determine whether or not there is
a running process?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-01 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-24 13:53 Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-11-24 14:49 ` Pedro Alves
2008-11-24 14:49 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-11-24 19:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-11-24 19:17 ` Pedro Alves
2008-11-24 20:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-12-01 22:10 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2008-12-01 22:18 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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