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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FRV: Implement the GDB remote protocol 'p' command to retrieve a register
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:48:06 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1006090945531.4506@i5.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100609161909.18222.78028.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>



On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, David Howells wrote:
>
> Implement the GDB remote protocol 'p' command to retrieve a single register
> value.

Is there any value to this? Apparently it used to work just because that 
command never did anything (rather than return an error). Why not just 
reinstate that behavior instead?

There's doesn't seem to be any reason to implement the single-register 
case unless there is some legacy use of it. There's a good reason gdb 
tends to use the "register block" thing, and it tends to be easier to 
implement too (no crazy case statements etc).

			Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-09 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-09 16:19 David Howells
2010-06-09 16:48 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2010-06-09 18:23   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2010-06-09 18:29     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-28  4:05     ` Jason Wessel
2010-06-09 18:50 ` David Howells

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