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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
	Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>,
	"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: duplicated code in gdb and gdbserver
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110112190407.GE2504@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikytwEGmpwo3ANxcfiJBSAWt4YgVKQOu82UH4nQ@mail.gmail.com>

> I think the remote protocol itself is getting old.
> In days of multiple threads, inferiors, and architectures, plus an
> expanding feature set, ISTM IWBN to start over.  We can still support
> the remote protocol for however long is appropriate of course.  I can
> imagine the remote protocol being (at least mostly) a degenerate case
> of its successor.

I don't really have a strong opinion about this.  Something to addo
to the discussion though: I know that many problems probes talk
the remote protocol in order to be used from GDB.  I don't see
that supporting 2 protocols to be an insurmountable problem...

-- 
Joel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-12 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-07 15:23 Yao Qi
2011-01-07 16:37 ` Doug Evans
2011-01-08  3:34   ` Yao Qi
2011-01-08  5:17     ` Joel Brobecker
2011-01-10 13:39   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2011-01-10 14:09     ` Joel Brobecker
2011-01-10 15:10       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2011-01-10 15:50       ` Paul Koning
2011-01-10 15:51     ` Doug Evans
2011-01-10 15:54       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2011-01-10 16:35         ` Doug Evans
2011-01-10 19:02           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2011-01-11 23:35             ` Joel Brobecker
2011-01-11 23:38           ` Joel Brobecker
2011-01-12  0:30             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2011-01-12 17:54               ` Doug Evans
2011-01-12 18:06                 ` Doug Evans
2011-01-12 18:43                   ` Paul Koning
2011-01-12 19:04                     ` Doug Evans
2011-01-12 20:09                 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2011-01-12 20:48                 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2011-01-14 17:04                   ` Doug Evans
2011-01-12 15:47           ` Tom Tromey
2011-01-07 17:17 ` Stan Shebs

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