From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18020 invoked by alias); 13 Nov 2001 18:20:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17996 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2001 18:20:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.cygnus.com) (216.138.202.10) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 13 Nov 2001 18:20:26 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cygnus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DDAB3D92; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:20:25 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3BF16468.1080308@cygnus.com> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 00:37:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20011020 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Andrew Cagney , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: G packet format ... References: <3BEF5CF4.4010201@cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00034.txt.bz2 > cagney wrote: > > : [...] As part of breaking^D^D^Dfixing this, I'd like to introduce a > : new CLI command that allows the user to specify the G packet (and in > : fact the entire remote protocol numbering) at runtime. [...] > > I assume the intent is eventually (soon?) to query the remote target > for its own remote-register-spec string. After all, it knows best. > If so, is it a possible problem that the specification string of a > large-register-bank machine may itself be so long as to exceed various > packet-size limits? That might happen (like querying a target for its architecture). However it is beyond the scope of this immediate change. Andrew