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Re: once again about GDB protocol
- From: Quality Quorum <qqi at theworld dot com>
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at ges dot redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:19:34 -0400
- Subject: Re: once again about GDB protocol
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It seems like any improvements in this area are impeded mostly by
> > 'ooops we have a bad implmentation in the field which will broken by
> > this nice feature'.
> >
> > Does it seem reasonable in this case to introduce a different framing
> > character (e.g. '@' instead of '$') for the next/improved version of
> > the protocol ?
>
> Given that one of the bugs is the entire transport layer (packet and
> ack) a new packet is needed.
Fine, can you post your washing list of things to be fixed improved,
I will append mine and I hope others can add their ideas too.
>
> As for the actual framing character, I've no opinion.
>
> > So, we can have a new/shiny/fast/smart/functional protocol and when we are
> > connecting to an old stub we will simply use 'old-remote' target, it seems
> > a trivial feat to make both 'remote' and 'old-remote' target to bark a
> > meaningful meesage about protocol mismatch and about necessary actions to
> > be taken to correct it.
>
> yes.
Good.
> Andrew
>
>
Thanks,
Aleksey