Re: Change stubs to handle '$' after packet start

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>]

"J.T. Conklin" wrote:
> 
> >>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <shebs@cygnus.com> writes:
> Stan> OK, I applied the retry patch, it went right in, no problems.
> Stan> So what's our next stub hack going to be?? :-)
> 
> I'd thought I'd go after some low hanging fruit first.  For example,
> support for run length encoding can only be found in sh-stub.c.  And
> I'd like to remove the support for 'b' (baudrate) from the sparc stub,
> which has been blindly copied to the sparclite and the sparclet stubs.
> It's been ifdef'd out for years, with the comment 'Disabled until we
> can unscrew this properly'.  It's been 7 years and there are no signs
> of this being unscrewed.  In fact strong arguments can (and have been)
> made that commands that change transport layer attributes are in
> general a bad idea.

``b'' is deprecated so yes, please, kill that code :-)

> Next, I thought I'd take another look at remote.texi, to see if there
> has been anything that has been omitted.

FYI, Stan's promised to do a more sweeping re-arange of *.texi. So
perhaphs hold off.
Do you want to do the review before/after I clean out my remote.texi
comment backlog?

> 
> After that, I'm not quite sure.  I think new status values for CPU
> exceptions instead of encoding them as signals, plus all the assorted
> changes within GDB that implies is high on the list.

Yes please!

	Andrew