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From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] New target_ops hook to_can_do_single_step
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 08:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <866163os3x.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55941892.3000902@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Wed, 01	Jul 2015 17:42:58 +0100")

Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

> But my issue with it is that this breaks gdb/gdbserver compatibility.
>
> Old GDB has:
>
>       /* If s, S, c, and C are not all supported, we can't use vCont.  Clearing
>          BUF will make packet_ok disable the packet.  */
>       if (!support_s || !support_S || !support_c || !support_C)
> 	buf[0] = 0;
>
> Which means that new x86-86 gdbserver with old gdb will just
> stop using vCont after this change.

I think you meant new arm gdbserver, which doesn't return s and S in the
reply, old gdb will stop using vCont.

>
> And old arm gdbserver will still claim support for vCont;s packets,
> which means that new gdb with old gdbserver will be broken.

That is right.  I'll do it in qSupported features.

-- 
Yao (齐尧)

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-02  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-01 13:58 [PATCH 00/11] Aarch64 linux GDB native multi-arch debugging (part 1) Yao Qi
2015-07-01 13:58 ` [PATCH 08/11] New proc is_aarch64_target Yao Qi
2015-07-01 14:10   ` Andreas Schwab
2015-07-01 14:19     ` Yao Qi
2015-07-01 14:39       ` Andreas Schwab
2015-07-01 13:58 ` [PATCH 07/11] New proc is_aarch32_target Yao Qi
2015-07-01 13:58 ` [PATCH 04/11] Set architecture to arm in arm-*.xml files Yao Qi
2015-07-01 13:58 ` [PATCH 02/11] New aarch32-linux-nat.c Yao Qi
2015-07-01 13:58 ` [PATCH 01/11] Remove {fetch,store}_fpregister and {fetch,store}_register Yao Qi
2015-07-01 13:59 ` [PATCH 06/11] Enable multi-arch test in catch-syscall.exp on aarch64 Yao Qi
2015-07-01 13:59 ` [PATCH 09/11] [gdbserver] Rename supports_conditional_breakpoints to supports_hardware_single_step Yao Qi
2015-07-01 13:59 ` [PATCH 03/11] Native debug arm program by aarch64 GDB Yao Qi
2015-07-01 13:59 ` [PATCH 11/11] New target_ops hook to_can_do_single_step Yao Qi
2015-07-01 16:43   ` Pedro Alves
2015-07-02  8:56     ` Yao Qi [this message]
2015-07-02  9:09       ` Pedro Alves
2015-07-01 13:59 ` [PATCH 05/11] Adjust gdb.multi tests for aarch64 Yao Qi
2015-07-01 13:59 ` [PATCH 10/11] Reply s and S vCont actions if target supports hardware single step Yao Qi
2015-07-01 17:00 ` [PATCH 00/11] Aarch64 linux GDB native multi-arch debugging (part 1) Pedro Alves
2015-07-01 18:54   ` Pedro Alves
2015-07-02  9:05   ` Yao Qi
2015-07-07 16:13   ` Yao Qi

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