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Re: [PATCH 08/10] Handle "show remote memory-write-packet-size" when not connected

From: Simon Marchi <simark at simark dot ca>
To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 22:53:05 -0400
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] Handle "show remote memory-write-packet-size" when not connected
References: <20180516141830.16859-1-palves@redhat.com> <20180516141830.16859-9-palves@redhat.com> <28ff1dac-fa38-6e19-fd0e-b4aed7e1832f@ericsson.com> <d2b58681-46db-0a54-0e95-299b72859054@redhat.com>

On 2018-05-21 03:47 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Yeah, I think the command itself it pretty obscure/weird.
> 
> "0" means "default packet size".  I.e., whatever packet size
> the remote can handle.  And if you do
> "set remote memory-write-packet fixed", then GDB picks
> an arbitrary default...
> I've spent a few hours today staring at this, trying to
> come up with something reasonable-ish, and this is what
> I came up with.  I even caught a bug.  I don't think it's worth
> it to polish this much more, as this is a pretty obscure
> command that most probably nobody uses nowadays.
> 
> WDYT?

This is completely reasonnable, thanks.

Simon

References:
- [PATCH 00/10] remote: More multi-target preparation
  - From: Pedro Alves
- [PATCH 08/10] Handle "show remote memory-write-packet-size" when not connected
  - From: Pedro Alves
- Re: [PATCH 08/10] Handle "show remote memory-write-packet-size" when not connected
  - From: Simon Marchi
- Re: [PATCH 08/10] Handle "show remote memory-write-packet-size" when not connected
  - From: Pedro Alves

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