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Re: remote protocol target byte ordering question
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Ananth Sowda <asowda at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:14:31 -0400
- Subject: Re: remote protocol target byte ordering question
- References: <c92b40c80806301842l3671c69iaa7fbc0163a5266d@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 06:42:09PM -0700, Ananth Sowda wrote:
> I know that GDB remote protocol uses target byte ordering for
> multi-bytes values as in register set content, memory address or
> values to be written to the target memory. I don't see where in the
> GDB code this swapping from host to target byte order is done. Can
> someone point to the right segment of the code? Thanks for any
> pointers.
Everywhere. The gdb convention is that all buffers are in target byte
order. For instance, follow extract_unsigned_integer.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery