From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26541 invoked by alias); 30 May 2013 10:54:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 26532 invoked by uid 89); 30 May 2013 10:54:17 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from gbenson.demon.co.uk (HELO blade.nx) (80.177.220.214) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 30 May 2013 10:54:16 +0000 Received: by blade.nx (Postfix, from userid 500) id E4F37263F7C; Thu, 30 May 2013 11:54:13 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 10:54:00 -0000 From: Gary Benson To: Pedro Alves Cc: Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [RFA 3/7 take 2] New gdbserver functionality Message-ID: <20130530105413.GA8637@blade.nx> Mail-Followup-To: Pedro Alves , Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Eli Zaretskii References: <20130524074613.GA4602@blade.nx> <51A64DEE.6070307@redhat.com> <20130530093839.GC5357@blade.nx> <51A72C8A.1080707@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51A72C8A.1080707@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2013-05/txt/msg01055.txt.bz2 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 -- http://gbenson.net/