Re: [RFA] Remote symbol look-up (resubmission)

Andrew Cagney
2001-05-11T19:57:00Z

Michael,

sorry about this, but what does the current interaction look like?
Looking at the code I think it is doing:

-> qSumbol:<symbol-file>

<- "" - unknown
"OK" - done
"qSymbol:<symbol>"

then:

-> QSymbol:<value>:<symbol>
or QSymbol::<symbol>

<- "" unknown
"OK" - done
"qSymbol:<symbol>"

while the documentation suggests:

-> qSymbSymbol:<symfile>
et.al.

My understanding of the most recent discussion was that the interaction
was going to be:

-> qSymbol
<- "" - unknown
"OK" - done
"qSymbol:<symbol>"

and then

-> qSymbol:<value>:<symbol>
<- same return values

because the symbol file wasn't, in its self, useful to the target. The
qSymbol without arguments indicated new symbols were available.

However, if you think the target should be notified of each new symbol
file then I'd rather see protocol go back to ``[qQ]SymbolFile:<file>''
followed by ``[qQ]Symbol:<val>:<sym>'' rather than the very subtlely
different ``QSymbol'' vs ``qSymbol''.

sorry about this,

Andrew