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Re: SuperH DTF connection protocol
- To: larwe at larwe dot com
- Subject: Re: SuperH DTF connection protocol
- From: Andrew Stubbs <Andrew dot Stubbs at st dot com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:28:11 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: newlib at sources dot redhat dot com
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 larwe@larwe.com wrote:
>
> >here have a gdb server working with DTF as the protocol. This is why we
> >want newlib plumbed into DTF somehow (in a more official way than we
> >currently do).
>
> Why the secrecy, though? If there is something of hacker interest there -
> e.g. debugging protected microcontrollers, recovering media decryption
> algorithms/keys, etc - it will be reverse-engineered anyway.
It's not about secrecy - just practicallity. One problem is that, at the
moment at least, the system is prone to change.
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