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From: Christo Crause <christo.crause@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:35:57 +0200
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Subject: Re: Remote protocol question: the documentation says '?' is not
 required, but maybe it is?
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@wdc.com>
Cc: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>, Reuben Thomas via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 1:34 PM Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@wdc.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Jul 2020, Reuben Thomas via Gdb wrote:
>
> > Also, whether or not I send T does not affect GDB's behaviour. In fact, I
> > shortened my code by changing it to send an S packet instead, which also
> > works fine, but still GDB needs me to implement '?'. The "invalid remote
> > reply" is in response to the stub sending an empty reply to "?".
>
>  FYI, I do believe `?' is indeed mandatory, as GDB needs to figure out the
> initial state of the remote target as it has connected to it, and there is
> no other way.  Documentation may be incomplete/incorrect here, and fallout
> from the lack of response (a protocol violation) might be better.
>
>   Maciej
>

I've tested this (empty reply for the ? packet) in gdb 8.3 and it also
results in gdb hanging, in agreement with Reuben's observations.  I
therefore think Maciej is correct, the ? packet is required and should be
marked as mandatory.