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Re: [RFA 3/7 take 2] New gdbserver functionality
- From: Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 11:54:13 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFA 3/7 take 2] New gdbserver functionality
- References: <20130524074613 dot GA4602 at blade dot nx> <51A64DEE dot 6070307 at redhat dot com> <20130530093839 dot GC5357 at blade dot nx> <51A72C8A dot 1080707 at redhat dot com>
Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 05/30/2013 10:38 AM, Gary Benson wrote:
> > Pedro Alves wrote:
> > > There should be a NEWS entry for the new RSP feature too though.
> >
> > How does this look?
> >
> > +* New features in the GDB remote stub, GDBserver
> > +
> > + ** GDBserver now supports the passing of an argument list in the
> > + annex field of qXfer:libraries-svr4:read. The remote stub
> > + reports support for this argument list to gdb's qSupported query.
> > +
>
> The emphasis should be in the RSP extension, not on GDBserver.
> Something like this, under the existing "New remote packets":
>
> * New remote packets
>
> qXfer:libraries-svr4:read's annex
>
> The previously unused annex of the qXfer:libraries-svr4:read packet
> has now been defined to support passing an argument list. The
> remote stub reports support for this argument list to gdb's
> qSupported query. The defined arguments are "start" and "prev",
> used to reduce work necessary for library list updating, resulting
> in significant speedup.
Nice, if Eli approves I will put that in.
Thanks,
Gary
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