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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: stop reply packets in rsp
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030613230911.GA27969@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0306131559330.29534@knuth.amplepower.com>

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:07:53PM -0700, Theodore A. Roth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The rsp documentation for the 'T' stop reply packet seems a bit
> sparse. Is there a minimal set of registers that must be passed to
> avoid gdb sending a 'g' request while stepping? I assume this is arch
> specific.  For the avr it looks like SP and PC are the minimal set.
> 
> Does gdb have any preferance as to which reply packets it would like
> to see? My remote targets seem to do ok with using 'T' replies for
> 'C', 'c', 'S', and 's' command packets and 'S' replies otherwise.

In general, if you can supply a 'T', do; then make the tradeoff
(bandwidth vs latency) to supply as many registers as are reasonably
useful.  Sometimes GDB fetches more registers, f.ex. to determine
function arguments in the frame.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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2003-06-13 23:03 Theodore A. Roth
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