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Re: [PATCH] Make gdb1476.exp more robust

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:41:46 -0500
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make gdb1476.exp more robust
References: <200401072213.i07MDiD1014224@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:13:44PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Peter Schauer pointed out to me that excuting code at address 0 might
> have ill effects on targets that don't have an MMU.  He suggested
> testing whether we could read from that address, and only run the
> tests if we can't.

I suppose that's some incentive for me to fix gdbserver... it currently
allows invalid reads.

> +# If we can examine what's at memory address 0, it is possible that we
> +# could also execute it.  This could pobably make us run away,

Typo, probably.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

References:
- [PATCH] Make gdb1476.exp more robust
  - From: Mark Kettenis

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