Re: [RFC stub-side break conditions 1/5] Documentation bits

[Luis Machado <luis_gustavo at mentor dot com>]

On 01/06/2012 02:22 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 01/05/2012 02:56 PM, Luis Machado wrote:
> > +@item @code{conditional-breakpoints-packet}
> > +@tab @code{Z0 and Z1}
> > +@tab @code{Support for stub-side breakpoint condition evaluation}
> >   @end multitable
>
> What about watchpoints, and other Z packets?
I wasn't going to touch them for now, but i suppose they can be easily 
extended later on.

> >   @node Remote Stub
> > @@ -34149,7 +34206,7 @@ avoid potential problems with duplicate
> >   be implemented in an idempotent way.}
> >
> >   @item z0,@var{addr},@var{kind}
> > -@itemx Z0,@var{addr},@var{kind}
> > +@itemx Z0,@var{addr},@var{kind};@r{[};@var{cond expr}@r{]}@dots{}
> >   @cindex @samp{z0} packet
>
> That seems to renders as ‘Z0,addr,kind;[;cond expr]...’
Not right, i'll fix it in the next iteration after clearing the packet 
format issue.

> Hmm.  If we're reusing/extending Z packets, then I'd rather this doesn't
> make it hard to support future extensions to the packet (e.g., thread 
> specific
> breakpoints), while at the same time _not_ supporting stub-side
> condition evaluation.  So imagine that I'll add a new thread-id 
> (pPID.TID)
> field to this packet, and I will specify an empty condition.   How 
> will the
> result look like?
>
>   Z0,addr,kind;;pPID.TID
>
> ?
>
> Wouldn't it be better something like:
>
>  Z0,addr,kind,cond_expr_list,other_future_extensions’
>
> and cond_expr_list being a ;-separated list?

Makes sense. The problem is that each conditional expression is of the 
form "size,expr". That's why i used a different marker to signal the 
beginning of an extension area.

We could name each extension with a marker (cond, thread_id, itset 
etc...). Would it be too much overhead in the packet? Like the following.

Z0,addr,kind,cond=size0,expr0;size1,expr1;...;sizen,exprn,itset=<itset>,foo=<foo>...

Something that comes to mind regarding adding multiple extensions to 
these packets is the packet size limitation. We may have to add 
"continuation" packets if the extensions get too numerous. If that 
happens, it probably wouldn't be wise to rely on specific field ordering.

--
Luis
lgustavo@codesourcery.com