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> Although I noticed the parallelism of the existing commands g/G, m/M, > and I recently proposed p to compliment P; I used B/D instead of b/B > because inserting and removing breakpoints don't have quite the same > type of symmetry as reading and writing memory or registers. A read > command doesn't change the state of the target, while removing a > breakpoint certainly does. FYI, While re-reading the protocol spec described in remote.c, I discovered the existing 'D' (detach) command, so I'm now using 'b' instead of 'D' for removing break/watchpoints. > One issue with 'b' is that it's used in the sparc* stubs to set the > baud rate of the connection. That code has been #ifdef'd out with > the comment "Disabled until we can unscrew this properly", so we may > be able to simply junk that. --jtc J.T. Conklin RedBack Networks