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

Orgad Shaneh
2016-04-14T09:07:03Z

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> gdb-remote-7.6 is the output of 7.6 Cavium version, which doesn't.
>>
>> TBC, does this happen with current FSF master against old (unpatched)
>> FSF 7.4 gdbserver? This might be due to local Cavium patches...
>
> No. It works as expected.
>
> I tried compiling FSF 6.5 for mips64-octeon-linux-gnu host,
>
> configured using ./configure --host=mips64-octeon-linux-gnu
> --target=mips64-octeon-linux-gnu
>
> It works fine with 7.4, but uses the host's gcc with 6.5...

Ok, autoconf helped. FSF gdbserver 6.5 has the same issue when the gdb
client is >=7.5: "Remote 'g' packet reply is too long".

So this doesn't seem to be related to Cavium patches.

- Orgad