Re: [RFC] support -b <baudrate> when starting gdb

On Jan 16, 2013, at 7:35 AM, Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote:

> How does 'set remotebaud' not do what you want?
> 
> Warner
> 
> On Jan 15, 2013, at 10:15 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> There doesn't seem to be a blessed way to set the baudrate from inside
>> gdb/kgdb. It seems to be set from '-b' on the command line.
>> 
>> However kgdb doesn't have this support.
>> 
>> This patch adds -b support so kgdb so I can override the default speed
>> (9600 it seems) to speak kgdb over serial to a 115200 console MIPS
>> device.
>> 
>> The MIPS stuff has other issues; I'll talk about those later.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Adrian
>> 
>> 
>> Index: gnu/usr.bin/gdb/kgdb/main.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- gnu/usr.bin/gdb/kgdb/main.c (revision 245281)
>> +++ gnu/usr.bin/gdb/kgdb/main.c (working copy)
>> _at__at_ -333,11 +333,24 _at__at_
>>       args.argv = malloc(sizeof(char *));
>>       args.argv[0] = argv[0];
>> 
>> -       while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "ac:d:fn:qr:vw")) != -1) {
>> +       while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "ab:c:d:fn:qr:vw")) != -1) {
>>               switch (ch) {
>>               case 'a':
>>                       annotation_level++;
>>                       break;
>> +               case 'b':
>> +                       {
>> +                               int i;
>> +                               char *p;
>> +
>> +                               i = strtol (optarg, &p, 0);
>> +                               if (i == 0 && p == optarg)
>> +                               warnx("warning: could not set baud
>> rate to `%s'.\n",
>> +                                   optarg);
>> +                               else
>> +                                       baud_rate = i;
>> +                       }
>> +                       break;
>>               case 'c':       /* use given core file. */
>>                       if (vmcore != NULL) {
>>                               warnx("option %c: can only be specified once",

It's more of a convenience factor and easier to script command line arguments IMO.
Thanks,
-Garrett