From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19678 invoked by alias); 15 Nov 2005 09:09:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 19662 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Nov 2005 09:09:35 -0000 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (HELO zproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.162.198) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:09:35 +0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id l1so1673263nzf for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:09:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.12.41 with SMTP id p41mr4115204nzi; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:09:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.2.35 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:09:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f2776cb0511150109p67555d41w4e88b6c459da2ae7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:09:00 -0000 From: Jim Blandy To: Jim Blandy , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Letters reserved for future use In-Reply-To: <20051115043603.GB12583@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <8f2776cb0511141706n692c7d51j1ffa959bf1961948@mail.gmail.com> <20051115043603.GB12583@nevyn.them.org> Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-11/txt/msg00291.txt.bz2 On 11/14/05, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > A reserved "long command" prefix that isn't in the query namespace > might help aesthetically, but would offer no technical value. Isn't that what 'v' is allegedly for? The whole thing about using organizational names in packet formats, as recommended for the query packets, seems a bit like overengineering.=20 If we're responsive, it should be enough for people to simply post here saying that they've defined a 'u' packet that does thus-and-so.=20 Even if we don't like the packet, we can at least act as an ad-hoc "assigned numbers authority" and note that it's been used somewhere.