RFC: Remote "qSupported" features probe

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:41:19PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:07:28 -0400
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> > 
> > > Can you clarify something for me?  If a stub recieves a 'qSupported:foo' 
> > > packet, should it still respond with any default information it might have 
> > > -- such as the PacketSize response?  Or should such default responses only 
> > > be sent for an unadorned qSupported packet?
> > 
> > qSupported:foo means "I'm GDB, I support the "foo" feature, what do you
> > support?".  The stub's response should be independent of the arguments
> > in the packet.
> 
> Daniel, if Nathan didn't understand this from the text, it's a clear
> sign that something like the above should be added to make things more
> self-explanatory.

Yes, I'll plan to add a note about this and repost; I'm just not going
to do it today.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery