[ECOS] RE: A build and a debug question

[Gary D. Thomas]

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 02:58, Westwood, Geoff wrote:
> 	Hi 
> 
> 	I would slightly prefer it if this was kept on the list. "Private" 
> 	one-to-one support, for eCosCentric is something we charge for, but
> we do 
> 	try and help people to a limited extent on the lists. But on the
> proviso 
> 	that the discussion is kept there so everyone gets the (potential!) 
> 	benefit of the resolution.
> 
> 	Sorry about that. I was having trouble posting to the list from my
> work PC. I figured out what the problem was now
> 	(It doesn't like the html mime option being on)
> 
> 	>This your own GDB or the prebuilt one?
> 
> 	A prebuilt one. The startup banner is "GNU gdb 5.0-gnupro-00r1"
> 
> 	> (gdb) target remote 10.20.111.111:9000
> 	> Remote debugging using 10.20.111.111:9000
> 	> gdb-internal-error: longest_local_hex_string_custom: insufficient
> space to
> 	> store result
> 
> 	The fact it happens with new_net implies it's something to do with
> the 
> 	RedBoot/eCos sharing. Have you given the target its own address? You
> can't 
> 	allocate both redboot and ecos addresses dynamically.
> 
> 	This sounds a likely cause. I hadn't given the IP address issue much
> thought or investigation at this stage . I had used Redboot to program an
> appropriate IP address and subnet mask. I had kind of assumed any network
> App will look in the same Flash area and by default use the IP params I had
> set via Redboot. Maybe this isn't the way it works, I will go and try and
> find some explanation on this in the docs.

I truly doubt that this is the issue, since the problem 
occurs during the initial connection.  The eCos application
is not even started running yet, much less competing for
IP addresses.

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