Re: [remote] Make registers network byteordered?

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
> 
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > At present the target sends back registers in target byte order format
> > vis:
> >
> >       T0525:c4060280ffffffff;1d:c0ffff81ffffffff;
> >
> > I'd like to think about a tweek to this part of the protocol so that the
> > format:
> >
> >       T0525=ffffffff80020664;1d=ffffffff81ffffc0;
> >
> > is accepted.  The thing I can't figure out is now to also change the
> > [pP] packets so that GDB can correctly detect targets that support this
> > format when writing registers.
> >
> > General comments?
> 
> What's the point?  Simply that registers don't have an endianness?

Several motivations:

	o	there is no robust way of
		communicating a change in
		endianess through the protocol.

		This should be trivial.  Fetch
		the status register and check
		the endian bit.  Nope.

	o	I've had it with trying to read
		what are endian independant values
		backwards.

enjoy,
	Andrew