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Re: G packet format ...


> 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?

That might happen (like querying a target for its architecture). 
However it is beyond the scope of this immediate change.

Andrew



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