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-rw-r--r--gdb/remote-mips.c13
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index fc9535b..3ea61e1 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Wed Dec 6 16:16:18 1995 Stu Grossman (grossman@cirdan.cygnus.com)
+
+ * remote-mips.c (mips_receive_header): Allow mips_syn_garbage to be
+ user-settable (via set syn-garbage-limit). Setting it to -1 makes
+ it unlimited.
+
Tue Dec 5 18:33:43 1995 Brendan Kehoe <brendan@lisa.cygnus.com>
* gdbtypes.c (check_stub_method): Make sure we get back a function
diff --git a/gdb/remote-mips.c b/gdb/remote-mips.c
index f6600b1..db3223b 100644
--- a/gdb/remote-mips.c
+++ b/gdb/remote-mips.c
@@ -509,7 +509,8 @@ mips_receive_header (hdr, pgarbage, ch, timeout)
}
++*pgarbage;
- if (*pgarbage > mips_syn_garbage)
+ if (mips_syn_garbage > 0
+ && *pgarbage > mips_syn_garbage)
mips_error ("Debug protocol failure: more than %d characters before a sync.",
mips_syn_garbage);
}
@@ -2169,4 +2170,14 @@ _initialize_remote_mips ()
This is the number of seconds to wait for an acknowledgement to a packet\n\
before resending the packet.", &setlist),
&showlist);
+
+ add_show_from_set (
+ add_set_cmd ("syn-garbage-limit", no_class, var_zinteger,
+ (char *) &mips_syn_garbage,
+"Set the maximum number of characters to ignore when scanning for a SYN.\n\
+This is the maximum number of characters GDB will ignore when trying to\n\
+synchronize with the remote system. A value of -1 means that there is no limit\n\
+(Note that these characters are printed out even though they are ignored.)",
+ &setlist),
+ &showlist);
}