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Re: [PATCH] Make file transfer commands work with all (native) targets.
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: palves at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:41:00 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make file transfer commands work with all (native) targets.
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 08:28:24 -0600
>
> Eli> But putting files on a remote target puts them on the board, no?
> Eli> There's no analogous place in native debugging.
>
> There's the local filesystem.
Yes, I know; but "put" and "get" don't make much sense in that case.
> >> Would you be OK with, or prefer, adding "target get/put/delete", leaving
> >> the "remote" variants in place?
>
> Eli> I guess so, but then won't you lose backward compatibility?
>
> He means to leave the "remote" variants in place.
OK.