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Re: Problem with Redboot and Dollar Sign
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: "Smith, Keith" <Keith dot Smith at PERKINELMER dot COM>
- Cc: "ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org" <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:41:14 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Problem with Redboot and Dollar Sign
- References: <9D93D31BB52B5F4E8F2E1720681CFFA40216F1@amermbx01.perkinelmer.net>
On 07/07/2011 06:31 AM, Smith, Keith wrote:
When I type a dollar sign, $, on the command line of RedBoot, RedBoot hangs.
Is this a known problem or just a problem with my build of RedBoot?
I noticed in redboot/src/io.c/_rb_gets_preloaded() that the $ used as a GDB lead-in.
In my ROM version of RedBoot, Redboot just hangs. In my ROMRAM version of Redboot, I get a GDB dump.
This is expected behaviour.
You should be able to type $c#63 and RedBoot will carry on.
If you really need to type $, try using \$
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