stop reply packets in rsp

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Fri Jun 13 23:09:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:07:53PM -0700, Theodore A. Roth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The rsp documentation for the 'T' stop reply packet seems a bit
> sparse. Is there a minimal set of registers that must be passed to
> avoid gdb sending a 'g' request while stepping? I assume this is arch
> specific.  For the avr it looks like SP and PC are the minimal set.
> 
> Does gdb have any preferance as to which reply packets it would like
> to see? My remote targets seem to do ok with using 'T' replies for
> 'C', 'c', 'S', and 's' command packets and 'S' replies otherwise.

In general, if you can supply a 'T', do; then make the tradeoff
(bandwidth vs latency) to supply as many registers as are reasonably
useful.  Sometimes GDB fetches more registers, f.ex. to determine
function arguments in the frame.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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