From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13305 invoked by alias); 13 Nov 2001 18:11:08 -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 13268 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2001 18:11:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO toenail.toronto.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 13 Nov 2001 18:11:05 -0000 Received: (from fche@localhost) by toenail.toronto.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fADIB3I06820; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:11:03 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: toenail.toronto.redhat.com: fche set sender to fche@redhat.com using -f To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: G packet format ... References: <3BEF5CF4.4010201@cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:51:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3BEF5CF4.4010201@cygnus.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00033.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? - FChE