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From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA] Small improvements to the remote protocol manual
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH=s-PPSPruEcS7xuXyrB6259WBG39prLFJrWCMopePj4vqE3w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eg4mrsvg.fsf@tromey.com>

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:
> Also, I forgot to note here that I didn't understand the documentation
> for the "A" packet; but when I looked at the code I couldn't find it in
> either gdb or gdbserver.  So, I wonder if it ought to be deleted.
>

The "A" packet was added in 1999 as a "reserved" packet,

+@item set program arguments @strong{(reserved)} @emph{(optional)}
+@tab @code{A}@var{arglen}@code{,}@var{argnum}@code{,}@var{arg}@code{,...}

but the "reserved" marker is removed in
b8ff78cefa335846b4303f303847a4d69e652795 (2005),

        - Remove "(reserved)" markers on 'A' and 'I' packets; it's unclear
          what this ever meant.

Nowadays, we still can't pass arguments in remote debugging.  If "A" still
meets our needs, we can use it in the future to pass arguments.

-- 
Yao (齐尧)

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-15 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-14  2:19 Tom Tromey
2016-09-14 22:58 ` Tom Tromey
2016-09-15 16:09   ` Yao Qi [this message]
2016-09-15 16:14     ` Tom Tromey
2016-12-02 11:58   ` Pedro Alves
2016-09-27 16:44 ` Tom Tromey
2016-09-27 17:46   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-27 19:39     ` Tom Tromey
2016-09-27 19:47       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-28 18:42         ` Tom Tromey
2016-12-02 11:59 ` Pedro Alves

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