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authorMark Alexander <marka@cygnus>1997-03-27 22:25:51 +0000
committerMark Alexander <marka@cygnus>1997-03-27 22:25:51 +0000
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* remote-mips.c: Clean up comment and extraneous semicolon
for mips_monitor_prompt variable.
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diff --git a/gdb/remote-mips.c b/gdb/remote-mips.c
index 1b3dc44..7434b21 100644
--- a/gdb/remote-mips.c
+++ b/gdb/remote-mips.c
@@ -301,18 +301,19 @@ enum mips_monitor_type {
};
static enum mips_monitor_type mips_monitor = MON_LAST;
-/* The default monitor prompt text: */
+/* The monitor prompt text. If the user sets the PMON prompt
+ to some new value, the GDB `set monitor-prompt' command must also
+ be used to inform GDB about the expected prompt. Otherwise, GDB
+ will not be able to connect to PMON in mips_initialize().
+ If the `set monitor-prompt' command is not used, the expected
+ default prompt will be set according the target:
+ target prompt
+ ----- -----
+ pmon PMON>
+ ddb NEC010>
+ lsi PMON>
+*/
static char *mips_monitor_prompt;
-;
-/* For the Cogent PMON world this is still not ideal. The default
- prompt is "PMON> ", unfortunately the user can change the prompt
- and the new prompt will survive over a power-cycle (EEPROM). This
- means that the code should really force the monitor prompt to a
- known value as the very first action, and that the
- "mips_monitor_prompt" support is not needed... since the prompt
- could be explicitly set to TARGET_MONITOR_PROMPT (even though it
- may be the prompt for a different monitor). However, this will
- require changing the mips_initialize reset sequence. (TODO) */
/* Set to 1 if the target is open. */
static int mips_is_open;