Re: RDI over ethernet failure message

[Shaun Jackman <sjackman at pathwayconnect dot com>]

I'd be more than happy to. I've never contributed to a GNU project
before though. Could you point me to a "new contributors" faq?
Is it reasonable to diff against gdb-5.0 or do I need go to CVS?

Cheers,
Shaun


On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Fernando Nasser wrote:

> Shaun,
> 
> I don't have any hardware that talks RDI over Ethernet arounf here,
> so I cannot reproduce the situation nor test any changes.
> 
> Won't you consider submitting a patch yourself?
> 
> Regards,
> Fernando
> 
> 
> Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > 
> > The RDI over ethernet failure message should be a little more user friendly.
> > Also, it shouldn't exit gdb if it's unable to connect.
> > 
> > GNU gdb 5.0
> > [clip]
> > This GDB was configured as "--host=i586-pc-linux-gnu --target=arm-elf"...
> > (gdb) ta rdi e=192.168.1.99
> > Fatal error: ethernet send failure [Invalid argument]
> > [gdb exits]
> > 
> > The serial RDI message makes a lot more sense.
> > 
> > GNU gdb 5.0
> > [clip]
> > This GDB was configured as "--host=i586-pc-linux-gnu --target=arm-elf"...
> > (gdb) ta rdi /dev/ttyS0
> > RDI_open: undefined error message, should reset target
> > RID_open failed
> > (gdb)
> > 
> > --
> > Shaun
> 
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