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Re: [remote] Make registers network byteordered?
- To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: [remote] Make registers network byteordered?
- From: Quality Quorum <qqi at world dot std dot com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:23:55 -0500
- cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>, GDB Discussion <gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
On 5 Dec 2000, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
>
> : [..]
> : At present the target sends back registers in target byte order format
> : vis:
> : T0525:c4060280ffffffff;1d:c0ffff81ffffffff;
> : I'd like to think about a [tweak] to this part of the protocol so that the
> : format:
> : T0525=ffffffff80020664;1d=ffffffff81ffffc0;
> : is accepted. [...]
>
> How are gdb and the target supposed to pick the right scheme? Do you
> imagine some sort of prior negotiation?
Gdb knows what target it is working with. Can you debug unknown target ?
>
> - FChE
>
Thanks,
Aleksey