[PATCH] Fix PR remote/9053: remove dead code on query packet size

Yao Qi
2014-08-08T05:54:26Z

The code becomes dead as GDB evolves. In 2003, Andrew Cagney post patch
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2003-10/msg00511.html to add target
read/write partial methods. They support query buffer size when both
OFFSET and LEN is zero, and it was used in avr-tdep.c and kod.c. Then,
Daniel added target_read_object_alloc and avr-tdep.c switches to use that
in patch https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2006-07/msg00009.html
From then on, GDB on longer queries the buffer size, so the code
returning packet size in remote_xfer_partial became dead.

PR 17060 is duplicated of PR 9053, so I mention the latter in the
ChangeLog entry. Rebuild GDB with this patch. OK to apply?
I'll mark PR 17060 as duplicated once the patch is applied.

gdb:

2014-08-08 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>

PR remote/9053
* remote.c (remote_xfer_partial): Remove dead code.
---
gdb/remote.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/remote.c b/gdb/remote.c
index 473bb72..357e9f2 100644
--- a/gdb/remote.c
+++ b/gdb/remote.c
@@ -8863,10 +8863,6 @@ remote_xfer_partial (struct target_ops *ops, enum target_object object,
return TARGET_XFER_E_IO;
}

- /* Note: a zero OFFSET and LEN can be used to query the minimum
- buffer size. */
- if (offset == 0 && len == 0)
- return (get_remote_packet_size ());
/* Minimum outbuf size is get_remote_packet_size (). If LEN is not
large enough let the caller deal with it. */
if (len < get_remote_packet_size ())
--
1.9.0