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Re: It takes a long time to disassemble some instructions for remote target
- From: Michael Snyder <msnyder at specifix dot com>
- To: Robert Bu <robert dot bu at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:44:22 -0800
- Subject: Re: It takes a long time to disassemble some instructions for remote target
- References: <a0319f700711140039h1711df82p25ec50a94175ac2f@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 16:39 +0800, Robert Bu wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> When I try to disassemble a range of instructions, for example from
> PC1 to PC2, GDB tries to fetch and disassemble the instructions one by
> one. This may not be a problem for native debugging, or for remote
> debugging with high connection speed. However, it takes some long time
> for a not so fast serial connection, since GDB fetches one instruction
> at a time, which results in a lot of 'm' packets.
> Is that possible for GDB to fetch all instructions back for one time
> with just one(maybe more than one, but now a lot of) 'm' packet, and
> disassemble them locally one by one?
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