* remote.c (getpkt): If we get a timeout, actually retry rather

	than just giving up the first time it happens.
	* remote.c: Document sequence numbers.
	(remote_store_registers): Change syntax of 'P' request so that it
	never looks like a sequence number.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 39ca98760a6d2200d1931b141bbd05ac9b877d79..0bcefda00daa9e6a2612bfd4bf612b97d1280267 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
+Tue Mar 29 19:41:34 1994  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
+
+       * remote.c (getpkt): If we get a timeout, actually retry rather
+       than just giving up the first time it happens.
+       * remote.c: Document sequence numbers.
+       (remote_store_registers): Change syntax of 'P' request so that it
+       never looks like a sequence number.
+
 Tue Mar 29 16:06:01 1994  Kung Hsu  (kung@mexican.cygnus.com)
 
-       * os9kread.c (record_minmal_symbol): add section_offset to
+       * os9kread.c (record_minimal_symbol): add section_offset to
        relocate minimal symbol table.
        * os9kread.c (read_minimal_symbols): ditto.
        * os9kread.c (os9k_symfile_init): increase size of dbg and stb

diff --git a/gdb/remote.c b/gdb/remote.c
index a82f6bbb80ed3c9c3c3d6ad0fbc16524bcd3098c..8cea2e06b0d2783f89fb2f7c064723c9d0547a07 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/remote.c
+++ b/gdb/remote.c
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.  */
        $ <data> # CSUM1 CSUM2
 
        <data> must be ASCII alphanumeric and cannot include characters
-       '$' or '#'
+       '$' or '#'.  If <data> starts with two characters followed by
+       ':', then the existing stubs interpret this as a sequence number.
 
        CSUM1 and CSUM2 are ascii hex representation of an 8-bit 
        checksum of <data>, the most significant nibble is sent first.
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.  */
        reply           OK              for success
                        ENN             for an error
 
-        write reg      Pn...:r...      Write register n... with value r...,
+        write reg      Pn...=r...      Write register n... with value r...,
                                        which contains two hex digits for each
                                        byte in the register (target byte
                                        order).
@@ -712,7 +713,7 @@ remote_store_registers (regno)
       /* Try storing a single register.  */
       char *regp;
 
-      sprintf (buf, "P%x:", regno);
+      sprintf (buf, "P%x=", regno);
       p = buf + strlen (buf);
       regp = &registers[REGISTER_BYTE (regno)];
       for (i = 0; i < REGISTER_RAW_SIZE (regno); ++i)
@@ -1186,9 +1187,9 @@ getpkt (retbuf, forever)
        {
          if (forever)
            continue;
-         if (++retries >= MAX_RETRIES)
-           if (remote_debug) puts_filtered ("Timed out.\n");
-         goto out;
+         if (remote_debug)
+           puts_filtered ("Timed out.\n");
+         goto whole;
        }
 
       if (c == SERIAL_EOF)