Re: Endianness and remote debugging

["Jan Hoogerbrugge" <hoogerbrugge at hotmail dot com>]

> > My target runs in little endian and my host in big endian. On the line 
> > between the stub and gdb I see that data is communicated in little endian. 
> > That seems to work fine. However, queries dealing with thread stuff seem 
> > to assume big endian. For example, I see the mode field of the P query in 
> > big endian. Is this a bug or am I missing something?
>
> You mean the P (write register) packet?  According to the documentation 
> (http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/, follow documentation), the register value 
> is in target byte order.

The problem has been solved after that I discovered that register values are 
sent in target order while other values are sent in big endian order.

BWT, I was refering to the 'qPmodethreadid' query of section D.4.

Thanks,
Jan

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