Re: 8 bit read

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 11:03:23AM -0500, Naushit Sakarvadia wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> This is regarding PowerPC 8260 gdb.
> 
> My question is how do I tell gdb to read a byte only  while reading
> 0xfff00100..0xfff00500 address range.
> While  checking mem I uze  "x /b  0xfff00100" and it works fine , but while
> I do unassamble from this address it tries to read a word from this
> location, and as a result the first byte is repeated 4 times.It is 8 bit
> wide flash mem,so
> you cant read a word at a time.
> 
> So I want to tell gdb to do byte wide reading while doing unassambling and
> all other operations.
> 
> Please reply me personally, I am not on gdb mailing list.

This is a probablem with your remote stub, not GDB itself.  You'll have
to teach the stub to only do byte reads.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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