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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:58:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop sending qTStatus if the target doesn't recognize it; add packet configuration command.
In-reply-to: <20130328191148.15126.83790.stgit@brno.lan>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:11:48 +0000
> 
> GDB currently sends a qTStatus even if the target previously replied
> an empty packet to a previous qTStatus.  If the target doesn't
> recognize the packet, there's no point in trying again.
> 
> The machinery we have in place is packet_ok, which has the nice side
> effect of forcing one to install a configuration command/knob for the
> packet in question, which is often handy when you need to debug
> things, and/or emulate a target that doesn't support the packet, or even,
> it can be used as workaround for the old broken kgdb's that return error
> to qTSTatus instead of an empty packet.
> 
> This needs a NEWS and docs review.

The NEWS and docs parts are OK.  Thanks.