Re: PATCH fix start-time and stop-time in trace-status

[Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>]

On 10/16/12 8:15 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 10/16/2012 03:59 PM, Dmitry Kozlov wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>> Pedro already asked to rewrite this patch at gdbserver-side and use hex instead of decimal.
>> See http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-10/msg00193.html
>> Could you setup one common opinion about what way is right?
> Since the RSP uses hex everywhere, the argument for keeping decimal format because
> it's human-readable in the remote log doesn't really hold.  Instead, having different
> formats makes reading the logs _worse_ (forcing one to wonder "is this in hex, or
> in decimal").  Given that there's no backwards compatibility issue here, I much
> prefer fixing gdbserver.
>

Yes, it looks like it was simply a brain cramp on my part, I was 
probably thinking plongest put out hex digits and didn't notice because 
the times printed on the host looked plausible.

(Ironically, a decimal-point encoding would probably be the most 
futureproof, right now the protocol assumes timestamps are in 
microseconds and a target reporting in nanoseconds would either lose 
data or cause all kinds of confusion.)

Stan
stan@codesourcery.com