PATCH: S/390: don't try to read zero bytes
Jim Blandy
jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com
Thu Dec 20 12:57:00 GMT 2001
Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
> > 2001-12-20 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
> >
> > * s390-tdep.c (s390_readinstruction): Don't call
> > info->read_memory_func to read zero bytes. Some targets'
> > xfer_memory functions can't cope with that.
> >
>
>
> Jim, which?
>
> While slightly stupid, the target should be able to handle that.
Oh, wait, I understand now.
A target's to_xfer_memory function is supposed to return the number of
bytes transferred, or zero if it can't transfer the bytes. If you
make a zero-length request, there's no way for it to indicate success.
D'oh!
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