From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9480 invoked by alias); 4 May 2006 12:38:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 9468 invoked by uid 22791); 4 May 2006 12:38:03 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Thu, 04 May 2006 12:37:58 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Fbd5g-0007el-FS for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 08:37:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 12:38:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFA: Document conventions for terminating query/set packet names Message-ID: <20060504123755.GA29302@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20060503195650.GA13156@nevyn.them.org> <20060504015712.GA19810@nevyn.them.org> <8f2776cb0605032313s69362babjcda4e60fe33f9d6e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8f2776cb0605032313s69362babjcda4e60fe33f9d6e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-05/txt/msg00042.txt.bz2 On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:13:47PM -0700, Jim Blandy wrote: > It's my impression that renaming qPart will also affect existing stubs > --- isn't that so? From looking around, it seemed to me that there > weren't too many implementations of qP, so I'm presuming that, if > something is to be broken, that'd be the one to break. But if you > know that RedBoot is more widely installed in inaccessible places, > then that's something I didn't realize. Well, I don't know it, but I strongly suspect it. I know we've gotten boards from vendors with RedBoot flashed into them; and the life of flashed boot monitors can be depressingly long. Here's the deal with qPart as I see it: there is currently exactly one OBJECT value defined, "auxv". This only applies to hosted programs running within an OS with an ELF interpreter, and in practice I think it only applies to GNU/Linux and Solaris. These are cases where the stub is fairly easy to upgrade. Now, once I get the qPart:features support merged, it'll be a different story; that's primarily targeted at embedded stubs. But it hasn't happened yet and I only know of a handful of users, none of whom are committed to the interface. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery