* remote-mips.c (mips_receive_header): Allow mips_syn_garbage to be

	user-settable (via set syn-garbage-limit).  Setting it to -1 makes
	it unlimited.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index fc9535be505b903fb4b47f90c28c96476a1e2f2d..3ea61e115ae379fad1311f41770a7f61a8143b61 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Wed Dec  6 16:16:18 1995  Stu Grossman  (grossman@cirdan.cygnus.com)
+
+       * remote-mips.c (mips_receive_header):  Allow mips_syn_garbage to be
+       user-settable (via set syn-garbage-limit).  Setting it to -1 makes
+       it unlimited.
+
 Tue Dec  5 18:33:43 1995  Brendan Kehoe  <brendan@lisa.cygnus.com>
 
        * gdbtypes.c (check_stub_method): Make sure we get back a function

diff --git a/gdb/remote-mips.c b/gdb/remote-mips.c
index f6600b1424817c0e7b1a439143471ccf7e055274..db3223b6fcc76c9e888ee7c4778555959c81acad 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/remote-mips.c
+++ b/gdb/remote-mips.c
@@ -509,7 +509,8 @@ mips_receive_header (hdr, pgarbage, ch, timeout)
                }
 
              ++*pgarbage;
-             if (*pgarbage > mips_syn_garbage)
+             if (mips_syn_garbage > 0
+                 && *pgarbage > mips_syn_garbage)
                mips_error ("Debug protocol failure:  more than %d characters before a sync.", 
                            mips_syn_garbage);
            }
@@ -2169,4 +2170,14 @@ _initialize_remote_mips ()
 This is the number of seconds to wait for an acknowledgement to a packet\n\
 before resending the packet.", &setlist),
        &showlist);
+
+  add_show_from_set (
+    add_set_cmd ("syn-garbage-limit", no_class, var_zinteger,
+                (char *) &mips_syn_garbage,
+"Set the maximum number of characters to ignore when scanning for a SYN.\n\
+This is the maximum number of characters GDB will ignore when trying to\n\
+synchronize with the remote system.  A value of -1 means that there is no limit\n\
+(Note that these characters are printed out even though they are ignored.)",
+                &setlist),
+                    &showlist);
 }