Re: [commit] Adjust ia64_linux_xfer_partial following to_xfer_partial API change.

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

BTW, I forgot to say, but -- thanks for writing the change
and commit logs!  :-)

-- 
Pedro Alves

On 02/26/2014 02:14 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> 
> 0001-Re-implement-ia64-linux-nat.c-ia64_linux_xfer_partia.patch
> 
> 
> From d16461aeef555da47e358b0f81c75912e4ea07e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:45:50 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] Re-implement ia64-linux-nat.c::ia64_linux_xfer_partial
> 
> [description of this patch and ChangeLog entry by Joel Brobecker]
> The recent implementation was questionable, and if it worked, it was
> only by chance because the requested length is large enough that only
> one read was sufficient.  Note that the implementation before that
> also made that assumption, in the form of only handling
> TARGET_OBJECT_UNWIND_TABLE xfer requests when offset was zero.
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 
>         * ia64-linux-nat.c (ia64_linux_xfer_partial): Reimplement
>         handling of object == TARGET_OBJECT_UNWIND_TABLE.
> ---
>  gdb/ChangeLog        |    5 +++++
>  gdb/ia64-linux-nat.c |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
> index e60ec1c..16f4619 100644
> --- a/gdb/ChangeLog
> +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
> @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
> +2014-02-25  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>
> +
> +	* ia64-linux-nat.c (ia64_linux_xfer_partial): Reimplement
 +	handling of object == TARGET_OBJECT_UNWIND_TABLE.