Re: PR13984 - gdb stops controlling a thread after "Remote 'g' packet reply is too long: ..." error message

Luis Machado
2016-04-13T19:11:30Z

On 04/13/2016 12:43 AM, Orgad Shaneh wrote:
>>> I got this message when I tried to remotely debug a
>>> mips64-octeon-linux gdbserver 6.8 with GDB >= 7.5.
>>>
>>> GDB <= 7.4.1 works well, but with 7.5 and up I receive this message
>>> and the debugger stops functioning.
>>>
>>
>> I suppose GDB 7.5 is slightly incompatible with older gdbserver versions.
>>
>> What kind of target description does gdbserver return in this case (set
>> debug remote 1)?
>
> Full log attached. Thanks for your help.
>
> - Orgad
>

Strange. If this is gdbserver 6.8, it should've replied to the
qSupported packet? That one was added in 6.6.