[RFA]: File-I/O patch, Documentation

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:33:08AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > c99 (what ever the standard) formalized a number of explicitly sized 
> > types (int32 et.al. I believe).  I think this table should be specified 
> > using those types.  The alternative is to generalize the 
> > sim/common/sim-types.h file and then specify the sizes using that.
> 
> I don't think so.  The protocol is more or less self-contained.  All
> definitions are based on the assumption, that you'll never find a
> really matching combination of values as they are defined on all
> machines.  Looking into the fileio code you'll see, that gdb has a
> couple of functions which transform all protocol datatypes to host
> datatypes and all protocol values to host values and vice versa.
> This is done that way to be totally independent from other sources of
> definition (especially machine dependent definitions).
> 
> It's *expected* that the gdb plugin on the target side is doing the
> same.

Sure.  But how big are they on the wire?  I think that's what Andrew
was asking to be clarified.


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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer