Any updates on this? cgf
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 12:39:13AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 12:30:44AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:39:34PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>However, before we reach this drastic step, I'd *really* suggest at >>>least trying the 5.1 branch of gdb. Your errors sound very similar >>>to others that were reported with ARM. It is very possible that >>>they were fixed subsequent to 5.0. >> >>I have just spelunked through the cvs logs in the rdi-share directory >>and it looks like most relevant changes to gdb for arm/rdi did make >>it into gdb 5.0 so this probably is not going to hold out much promise. >> >>>From looking at gdb's code it seems like select is returning a TRUE >>for something to select on the serial line but when it is time to >>read something, apparently nothing is available. >> >>I guess I really will have to make a cable and connect my linux and >>windows systems to test this... > >One suggestion for the gdb code -- add an '| O_BINARY' to all of the >opens of the serial line in unixcomm.c. I can see a pathological >condition in cygwin where a VMIN setting will not be properly honored if >there is a readahead condition due to a '\n' -> '\r\n' conversion. > >This could cause the code to block but even if it wasn't blocking, I >assume that you probably don't want to do newline conversions. > >This probably isn't going to fix the problem since the default is for >cygwin to not do this kind of conversion on devices but it's best to be >safe anyway. > >cgf > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. http://sources.redhat.com/ http://www.redhat.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
