From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2609 invoked by alias); 24 May 2018 15:05:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 1245 invoked by uid 89); 24 May 2018 15:05:35 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (208.118.235.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 24 May 2018 15:05:34 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLrnz-0001FQ-35 for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 11:05:32 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36494) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLrnL-0000aD-UT; Thu, 24 May 2018 11:04:47 -0400 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3850 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fLrnL-0006Zo-72; Thu, 24 May 2018 11:04:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 16:54:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83y3g9aycm.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Sergio Durigan Junior CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, palves@redhat.com, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, fercerpav@gmail.com, sekiriki@gmail.com In-reply-to: <87in7e6iw9.fsf@redhat.com> (message from Sergio Durigan Junior on Wed, 23 May 2018 19:40:06 -0400) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement IPv6 support for GDB/gdbserver Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20180523185719.22832-1-sergiodj@redhat.com> <8336yich5s.fsf@gnu.org> <87in7e6iw9.fsf@redhat.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-05/txt/msg00650.txt.bz2 > From: Sergio Durigan Junior > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, palves@redhat.com, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, fercerpav@gmail.com, sekiriki@gmail.com > Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 19:40:06 -0400 > > The square brackets in this case don't mean that the HOST is optional. > Rather, they *enclose* the hostname. As explained in the text above > this, IPv6 introduced a new way to specify URLs: by enclosing them in > square brackets. This is because the IPv6 separator (':') is the same > as the resource (port) separator, which can cause confusion. Therefore, > an IPv6 URL can have the form: > > [::1]:1234 Then perhaps we shouldn't advertise the bracket-less syntax at all, and only say somewhere that it is accepted for backward compatibility? > Perhaps I shouldn't use @r{[} and @r{]}? Yes, @r{..} is definitely wrong in that case, you should drop it.