remote protocol support for TARGET_OBJECT_AUXV
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@false.org
Wed Feb 25 16:06:00 GMT 2004
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:53:57AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >>Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 09:34:16 -0500
> >>>From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> >>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Does anybody know what's the story here, why ENN is printed and what
> >>>>> it should be? Is this perhaps a bug?
> >>
> >>>
> >>>It predates my work with gdbserver. My guess is that someone saw ENN
> >>>in the manual, realized that GDB didn't parse the error numbers to do
> >>>anything useful, and decided not to bother coming up with some.
> >
> >
> >If so, I think we should simply remove the ENN thing (and update the
> >docs accordingly). It doesn't make sense, IMHO, to print a string
> >that has no useful meaning.
>
> Er, no. "Enn" as a reply packet is a fundamental part of the protocol
> and can't be removed. Whats lacking is the formal specification of its
> contents. For the moment I'd leave that part of roland's doco as is.
Yeah, I agree. Eli, it does have a useful meaning: it means that an
error occured. It just neglects to tell us _what_ :)
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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