From dcd2e6ef22c3453b9322ad4b46fb7cc05810b7ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yao Qi Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 13:45:23 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Fix PR remote/9053: remove dead code on query packet size The code becomes dead as GDB evolves. In 2003, Andrew Cagney post patch https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2003-10/msg00511.html to add target read/write partial methods. They support query buffer size when both OFFSET and LEN is zero, and it was used in avr-tdep.c and kod.c. Then, Daniel added target_read_object_alloc and avr-tdep.c switches to use that in patch https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2006-07/msg00009.html From then on, GDB on longer queries the buffer size, so the code returning packet size in remote_xfer_partial became dead. PR 17060 is duplicated of PR 9053, so I mention the latter in the ChangeLog entry. Rebuild GDB with this patch. OK to apply? I'll mark PR 17060 as duplicated once the patch is applied. gdb: 2014-08-09 Yao Qi PR remote/9053 * remote.c (remote_xfer_partial): Remove dead code. --- gdb/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ gdb/remote.c | 4 ---- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 7dd366b63c..0e30fe0329 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2014-08-09 Yao Qi + + PR remote/9053 + * remote.c (remote_xfer_partial): Remove dead code. + 2014-08-07 Andreas Arnez * ia64-linux-tdep.c: Include "regset.h". diff --git a/gdb/remote.c b/gdb/remote.c index 473bb724a2..357e9f2c91 100644 --- a/gdb/remote.c +++ b/gdb/remote.c @@ -8863,10 +8863,6 @@ remote_xfer_partial (struct target_ops *ops, enum target_object object, return TARGET_XFER_E_IO; } - /* Note: a zero OFFSET and LEN can be used to query the minimum - buffer size. */ - if (offset == 0 && len == 0) - return (get_remote_packet_size ()); /* Minimum outbuf size is get_remote_packet_size (). If LEN is not large enough let the caller deal with it. */ if (len < get_remote_packet_size ())