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Re: RE: A build and a debug question
- From: "Gary D. Thomas" <gary dot thomas at mind dot be>
- To: "Westwood, Geoff" <GWestwood at averyberkel dot com>
- Cc: "'ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com'" <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 26 Mar 2003 07:28:09 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] RE: A build and a debug question
- References: <D855107131D1D31199A300805F198C2F03902EF7@HO_NT_EXC_02>
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 02:58, Westwood, Geoff wrote:
> Hi
>
> I would slightly prefer it if this was kept on the list. "Private"
> one-to-one support, for eCosCentric is something we charge for, but
> we do
> try and help people to a limited extent on the lists. But on the
> proviso
> that the discussion is kept there so everyone gets the (potential!)
> benefit of the resolution.
>
> Sorry about that. I was having trouble posting to the list from my
> work PC. I figured out what the problem was now
> (It doesn't like the html mime option being on)
>
> >This your own GDB or the prebuilt one?
>
> A prebuilt one. The startup banner is "GNU gdb 5.0-gnupro-00r1"
>
> > (gdb) target remote 10.20.111.111:9000
> > Remote debugging using 10.20.111.111:9000
> > gdb-internal-error: longest_local_hex_string_custom: insufficient
> space to
> > store result
>
> The fact it happens with new_net implies it's something to do with
> the
> RedBoot/eCos sharing. Have you given the target its own address? You
> can't
> allocate both redboot and ecos addresses dynamically.
>
> This sounds a likely cause. I hadn't given the IP address issue much
> thought or investigation at this stage . I had used Redboot to program an
> appropriate IP address and subnet mask. I had kind of assumed any network
> App will look in the same Flash area and by default use the IP params I had
> set via Redboot. Maybe this isn't the way it works, I will go and try and
> find some explanation on this in the docs.
I truly doubt that this is the issue, since the problem
occurs during the initial connection. The eCos application
is not even started running yet, much less competing for
IP addresses.
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