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Re: tracepoint.c memory range requests

From: Jim Blandy <jimb at red-bean dot com>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>
Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:39:29 -0800
Subject: Re: tracepoint.c memory range requests
References: <8f2776cb0511181737w1f99beb0rec6d4cd40dc7c131@mail.gmail.com> <437E88F0.3070206@redhat.com>

On 11/18/05, Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com> wrote:
> Actually, there may be such a stub -- there's been at least
> one guy posting questions about target tracepoint implementation
> this year.
>
> Is the purpose just to make the packet smaller?

Yeah.

> The intent was for that number to be the value negative one,
> so changing it to "M-1,<start>,<len>" wouldn't be entirely
> unreasonable.  The comments in gdb refer to it as "-1",
> (when they don't mistakenly refer to it as "0").

Okay.  I'll make the code behave that way, and document it that way.

References:
- tracepoint.c memory range requests
  - From: Jim Blandy
- Re: tracepoint.c memory range requests
  - From: Michael Snyder

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