Re: [RFA 3/7 take 2] New gdbserver functionality

[Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>]

Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 05/30/2013 10:38 AM, Gary Benson wrote:
> > Pedro Alves wrote:
> > > There should be a NEWS entry for the new RSP feature too though.
> > 
> > How does this look?
> > 
> > +* New features in the GDB remote stub, GDBserver
> > +
> > +  ** GDBserver now supports the passing of an argument list in the
> > +     annex field of qXfer:libraries-svr4:read.  The remote stub
> > +     reports support for this argument list to gdb's qSupported query.
> > +
> 
> The emphasis should be in the RSP extension, not on GDBserver.
> Something like this, under the existing "New remote packets":
> 
> * New remote packets
> 
> qXfer:libraries-svr4:read's annex
> 
> The previously unused annex of the qXfer:libraries-svr4:read packet
> has now been defined to support passing an argument list.  The
> remote stub reports support for this argument list to gdb's
> qSupported query.  The defined arguments are "start" and "prev",
> used to reduce work necessary for library list updating, resulting
> in significant speedup.

Nice, if Eli approves I will put that in.

Thanks,
Gary

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