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Re: remote/2158: Memory access error while loading section .text, Escape characters
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: nobody at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-prs at sources dot redhat dot com,
- Date: 17 Aug 2006 13:48:02 -0000
- Subject: Re: remote/2158: Memory access error while loading section .text, Escape characters
- Reply-to: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
The following reply was made to PR remote/2158; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: ronald.hecht@gmx.de
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: remote/2158: Memory access error while loading section .text, Escape characters
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:38:58 -0400
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:24:53PM -0000, ronald.hecht@gmx.de wrote:
> While porting to a new target, I found a problem downloading the
> executable into the SID simulator. I'm getting the following error
> message:
>
> Loading section .text, size 0x45 lma 0x0
> Memory access error while loading section .text.
Could you provide a trace using "set debug remote 1"?
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Difficult, as I'm working on a new target.
> >Fix:
> I tracked down the problem to a possible bug in
> remote.c/remote_write_bytes(). When sending characters to be escaped
> the following code is in my opinion wrongly executed:
Why wrongly? Do you mean that it shouldn't be executed, or that it is
executed incorrectly?
I really wouldn't have expected you to be triggering that code with an
0x45 byte text section, anyway. That's plenty small enough to fit in
one packet. Is get_memory_write_packet_size returning something tiny?
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery