RFC: Two small remote protocol extensions

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Thu May 2 14:13:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:13:20PM -0400, Quality Quorum wrote:
> There some more annoying things in gdb protocol which require careful
> consideration:

I know.  I intend to clean up the spec documentation in a couple of
weeks, if I have time.

> 4. exact meaning of Hg - last time I checked it was related to registers

Yes, although it's unclear; for instance Txxxx;thread:N changes
general_thread.

> 5. exact meaning of Hc - last time I check it did not mean anything
>    because gdb itself was not able to support per thread breakpoints

It's used for scheduler locking.  GDB does support per thread
breakpoints (somewhat), but that's not related to Hc...


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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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