remote protocol extension for step out of range
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@cygnus.com
Mon Jan 29 13:48:00 GMT 2001
"J.T. Conklin" wrote:
> Step-out-of-range only commands might look like:
>
> ENN,SS..SS,EE..EE[,AA...AA]
> or:
> eSS...SS,EE..EE[,AA..AA]
>
> Which would step from the PC and repeat until it moved out of the
> range described by SS..SS and EE..EE. I've also preserved the ability
> to set the initial PC like the existing step commands for parallelism;
> I don't expect that GDB will use it either.
>
> To be able to successfully probe for this command, there should be a
> return value. An OK or EXX response should do. Older stubs would
> return "" as they do for all unrecognized commands.
>
> Btw, I chose 'E/e' because that was the only letter in the word 'step'
> that isn't already used.
Would an addition to the breakpoint packet work? Rather than break when
in this range, break when outside of this range.
Andrew
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