remote protocol target byte ordering question

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Tue Jul 1 02:14:00 GMT 2008


On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 06:42:09PM -0700, Ananth Sowda wrote:
> I know that GDB remote protocol uses target byte ordering for
> multi-bytes values as in register set content, memory address or
> values to be written  to the target memory. I don't see where in the
> GDB code this swapping from host to target byte order is done. Can
> someone point to the right segment of the code? Thanks for any
> pointers.

Everywhere.  The gdb convention is that all buffers are in target byte
order.  For instance, follow extract_unsigned_integer.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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