[ECOS] RE: A build and a debug question

[Jonathan Larmour]

>>	A prebuilt one. The startup banner is "GNU gdb 5.0-gnupro-00r1"

Ah. I strongly recommend switching to 5.3 since that's what we're using, 
and we know it works. You can get prebuilts by using the ecos 2.0beta 
installer

>>	> (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.

True - somehow it slipped my mind when it came to me it was at the target 
remote stage so it couldn't possibly be that.

Jifl
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