Broken remote protocol qOffsets response handling

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:13:40AM -0700, Earl Chew wrote:
> I started using qOffsets, and was dismayed to find that gdb remote.c
> silently discards bss, and uses data twice instead.
> 
> Looking through the archives, I see that jtc has already posted
> a patch to resolve this issue (both in remote.c and nlm/gdbserve.c).
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/1999-q4/msg00011.html
> 
> Apparently nlm/gdbserve.c is the root of the problem (.bss and .data
> equivalent), and the hack in remote.c basically makes qOffsets useless
> for most every other target that could use it.
> 
> Is it simply too difficult to incorporate this patch?
> 
> If we can't, I'd propose adding qSections (exactly the same syntax
> as qOffsets) that doesn't have this inflexible behaviour.

My vote is to include it (and possibly kill the NetWare stub at the
same time).  I don't believe this stub is in use any longer.  But it's
not my opinion that matters :)

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer