On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:40:46PM +0000, Nigel Stephens wrote: > I thought the Linux community prided itself on inventing new and > "non-standard" extensions to the toolchain ;-). But yes, we should try > to avoid incompatible changes. As part of MIPS we will hopefully have > the resources to interface with the rest of the GNU community, and argue > for the inclusion of our patches in the CVS trees. Actually, we've been trying to pride ourselves on not doing so :) > Yup. SDE-MIPS 1.1 shipped in 1992. :-) Wow... > Yeah, that's why we dropped 'R' in our more recent gdb ports, but I > wasn't aware of the new use of 'r' - I'll check out that page. I think it's an old use, actually. I'm not sure where it was used though. > Certainly 'p' is the logical inverse of 'P', so we'll change our gdb > remote stub to use that. So how about accepting Carsten's change, with > the 'R' case removed, and 'r' changed to 'p'? Can't do it. I strongly suspect that it will render the stub unusable with current versions of FSF GDB. Your tools add an explicit size to the packet and the community tools do not; so when they probe for and discover the P packet, they will probably try to use it and get confused. That's why I'd like to discuss this on the GDB list first. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
