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Re: Ctrl-C interrupt problem.


Fabrice Gautier wrote:
> 
> [eCos and RedBoot guys, I think this may concern you
>  its about a ctrl-C problem which only happen when debugging via ethernet.
>  full story in the gdb list archives ]
> 
> I Got it!
> Well, i hope....
> 
> And it make sens why it only happens with TCP...
> 
> The problem is that when gdb send the continue packet to the target, it wait
> for the target to send the '+' Ack. During this time the SIGINT handler is
> not set.
> 
> My guess is that RedBoot intedn to send it BUT (tata) the ethernet driver
> just wait to have a full packet before really sending! So this happen when a
> O packet is sent.
> 
> So i guess the only thing needed in RedBoot is to add a "flush" somewhere.
> I'm not sure at what level, but i'll look at it tomorrow if nobody does it
> before.
> 

Fabrice, if this is true (and it is a very plausible explanation), you have
caught a very nasty bug that was going to bother many people.

For instance, the GUI presently (with the new sources you got from cvs) is
kept active while the target is running, but not while waiting for an ACK!


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