Letters reserved for future use

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:06:32PM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
> In (gdb)Remote Serial Protocol, every upper- and lower-case letter
> that is not given a meaning is marked individually as "reserved for
> future use".  This is kind of dopey.  Could we just have one remark at
> the top that says that all upper- and lower-case letters not defined
> there are reserved for future use?

What Eli said :-)

> What should people looking to make vendor-specific extensions to the
> protocol do?  Are they required to stay within the general query /
> general set commands, with a vendor prefix?

That's what I've done in the past.  Well, I've also done a certain
amount of just Making Stuff Up, but that's not what I recommend when
people ask me :-)

A reserved "long command" prefix that isn't in the query namespace
might help aesthetically, but would offer no technical value.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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