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From: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,
	"Aktemur, Tankut Baris" <tankut.baris.aktemur@intel.com>,
	"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gdb, gdbserver: introduce the 'x' RSP packet for binary memory read
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:36:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzl71qqf.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87il0vnbpb.fsf@tromey.com>

Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> writes:

>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Andrew> The alternative to this would be to add a qSupported feature for the 'x'
> Andrew> packet and choose m/x based on the qSupported reply.
>
> That's what his original patch did.  If you think that's best then it
> already exists.  My view was that there didn't seem to be a need for
> this to be in qSupported and the qSupported responses are already
> getting pretty long.

No, I joined this party a little late, so I missed that this was the
original approach taken.

I think the best solution would be to add a prefix character to the
reply so that we never send back an empty packet (when this feature is
supported), then use the empty packet to represent the unsupported case.

Thanks,
Andrew


  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-08 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-13 15:35 [PATCH 0/3] Introduce the 'x' RSP packet Tankut Baris Aktemur
2024-03-13 15:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] gdbserver: allow suppressing the next putpkt remote-debug log Tankut Baris Aktemur
2024-03-13 19:10   ` Tom Tromey
2024-03-14 10:36     ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris
2024-03-13 15:35 ` [PATCH 2/3] rsp: add 'E' to escaped characters Tankut Baris Aktemur
2024-03-13 19:17   ` Tom Tromey
2024-03-13 15:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] gdb, gdbserver: introduce the 'x' RSP packet for binary memory read Tankut Baris Aktemur
2024-03-13 15:50   ` Luis Machado
2024-03-13 18:21     ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris
2024-03-14 10:01       ` Luis Machado
2024-03-13 15:58   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-13 19:27   ` Tom Tromey
2024-03-14 10:36     ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris
2024-03-14 12:46       ` Tom Tromey
2024-03-15  9:59         ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris
2024-03-19 16:01           ` Tom Tromey
2024-03-20 17:32             ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris
2024-03-20 20:12               ` Tom Tromey
2024-04-05 13:05             ` Andrew Burgess
2024-04-05 14:09               ` Tom Tromey
2024-04-08 21:36                 ` Andrew Burgess [this message]
2024-03-14 12:34     ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris
2024-03-14 13:07 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce the 'x' RSP packet Tankut Baris Aktemur
2024-03-14 13:07   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] doc: fine-tune the documentation of the 'm' " Tankut Baris Aktemur
2024-03-14 15:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-14 13:07   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] gdbserver: allow suppressing the next putpkt remote-debug log Tankut Baris Aktemur
2024-03-14 13:07   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] rsp: add 'E' to escaped characters Tankut Baris Aktemur
2024-03-14 13:46     ` Ciaran Woodward
2024-03-14 15:19       ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris
2024-04-05 12:59         ` Andrew Burgess
2024-03-14 15:07     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-14 13:07   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] gdb, gdbserver: introduce the 'x' RSP packet for binary memory read Tankut Baris Aktemur
2024-04-09  7:48   ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Introduce the 'x' RSP packet Tankut Baris Aktemur
2024-04-09  7:48     ` [PATCH v3 1/3] doc: fine-tune the documentation of the 'm' " Tankut Baris Aktemur
2024-04-09  9:27       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-09  7:48     ` [PATCH v3 2/3] gdbserver: allow suppressing the next putpkt remote-debug log Tankut Baris Aktemur
2024-04-09  7:48     ` [PATCH v3 3/3] gdb, gdbserver: introduce the 'x' RSP packet for binary memory read Tankut Baris Aktemur

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