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Re: G packet format ...
- To: Andrew Cagney <cagney at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: G packet format ...
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- Date: 13 Nov 2001 13:11:02 -0500
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <3BEF5CF4.4010201@cygnus.com>
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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