Re: gdb-stub question (m packets)

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at ges dot redhat dot com>]

> On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 01:05:36AM -0700, Alexei Minayev wrote:
>
> > Dear gdb oracles,
> >
> > I'm still fighting with my gdb-h8-stub, and getting funny yet evil errors.
> > The gdb happens to attempt reading a memory location. The content of the
> > memory location is something that starts with 0xE, say 0xE500.
> > The conversation looks kinda like this:
> >
> > m200042,2...Ack
> > Packet received: E500
> > Unable to access memory location 200042.
> >
> > The gdb understands the numeric hex value of 0xE500 as an error response.
> > So my question would be simple... am I supposed to prefix all my numeric
> > packets with "0x"? Please help, this is confusing...
>
> GDBserver uses lowercase hex numbers.  That seems to work fine.
Hmm, can someone file a bug report for this: 
http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/bugs/

The error check should be for ``Enn'' (note the three digits - valid 
responses would contain two or 4 digits).

Andrew