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remote/1762: 'X' packet documentation misleading
- From: Nigel dot Hathaway at arm dot com
- To: gdb-gnats at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 27 Aug 2004 07:56:22 -0000
- Subject: remote/1762: 'X' packet documentation misleading
- Reply-to: Nigel dot Hathaway at arm dot com
>Number: 1762
>Category: remote
>Synopsis: 'X' packet documentation misleading
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Aug 27 07:58:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Nigel Hathaway
>Release: 6.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
arm-elf-gdb, i686-cygwin
>Description:
The documentation says: "The characters $, # and 0x7d are escaped using 0x7d."
It mentions nothing about exclusive-or-ing with 0x20. Why is this done anyway?
I initially blamed the compiler...
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
The characters $, # and 0x7d are exclusive-or'ed with 0x20 and then escaped using 0x7d.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: