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Re: [remote] Make registers network byteordered?

To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: [remote] Make registers network byteordered?
From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: 06 Dec 2000 06:51:43 -0500
Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb at cygnus dot com>, GDB Discussion <gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <3A2C4305.6D9E53B3@cygnus.com> <np1yvm8plo.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com><3A2D84F3.48F372E@cygnus.com>


cagney wrote:

: [...]
: > What's the point?  Simply that registers don't have an endianness?
: 
: Several motivations:
: [...]
: 	o	I've had it with trying to read
: 		what are endian independant values
: 		backwards.

Certainly a laudable goal.  What would be the corresponding syntax for
the `g' and `p'/`P' packets?  Is there any intended support for
mismatching register sizes (e.g., 4-byte vs sign-extended 8-byte MIPS
pointers)?

- FChE

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