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Re: RFC: Run length encoding bug in remote.c?
Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:11:25AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> >> > The patch below makes that change. Though this works (tested with
> >> > "print *current" in gdb) and looks sensible to me, I have a feeling that
> >> > this error should show up quite often for other people as well, since it
> >> > would happen every time the response to an 'm' packet ends with
> >> > run-length encoding of the data.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> I don't know that many targets use run-length incoding and hence,
> >> probably few have noticed the bug.
> >
> >
> > For reference, and for amusement at the synchronicity, we ran into this
> > again today on a Hitachi SH firmware stub; I'll second the patch.
>
> In that case, it should probably also go on the 5.1 branch.
>
> Andrew
Ok, committed to both trunk and branch. Thanks.
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