mcore registers

Andrew Cagney ac131313@redhat.com
Tue Sep 30 15:40:00 GMT 2003


>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> 
>  >> I had planned on eventually implementing the run-length encoding
>  >> (using the '*' symbol).  All of the non-existent registers just
>  >> get reported as containing zeroes, so RLL would compress this
>  >> consistently....
> 
>  Andrew> Ok.  Note that GDB doesn't run length encode. 
> 
> Curious... I turned it on (with gdb 5.3, x86 host, mips target) and it
> worked for me.  Helps a lot, too.

Let me try again. GDB won't, as far as I know, run-length-encode packets 
that it sends to the target.  It will happily accept run-length-encoded 
packets the target sends to it though.

Andrew




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