Re: gdbserver 7.1 unable to read registers

[William Wagner <will_wagner@carallon.com>]

  On 24/09/2010 14:36, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Friday 24 September 2010 13:58:08, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
>
>> Usually, gdbserver will inform GDB via the remote protocol about the
>> set of registers supported on the platform, and GDB is supposed to
>> automatically take that information into account.
>>
>> However, this requires that GDB is built to include XML support to
>> parse this configuration information; if the expat libraries were
>> not available when you built GDB, the configure process might have
>> decided to build GDB without XML support instead ...
>> Can you try rebuilding with the --with-expat configure option?
>> This will cause the build to fail if XML support is not available.
> Note that GDB issues a warning at connect time in that case:
>
>   "Can not parse XML target description; XML support was disabled at compile time"

When I run gdb I see that warning, did not realise what the consequence 
of not having XML support was. Will recompile with expat and see if that 
fixes it.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Will

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