From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make file transfer commands work with all (native) targets.
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehbiicc7.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mwqadpf5.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 28 Jun 2013 22:07:58 +0300")
>> Yeah, I admit it fits more in the general "as fewer differences
>> we have between local/remote debugging, the better" theme than
>> driven by a particular use case. A possible example would be something
>> like gdb scripts working the same whether connected to a remote
>> or local target (and unaware of whether the local target is implemented
>> by local gdbserver or the native built-in target).
Eli> But putting files on a remote target puts them on the board, no?
Eli> There's no analogous place in native debugging.
There's the local filesystem.
You can run gdbserver locally and still use these commands.
>> > Without a good use case, having "remote get" serve like a poor man's
>> > 'cp' is confusing, IMO.
>>
>> Would you be OK with, or prefer, adding "target get/put/delete", leaving
>> the "remote" variants in place?
Eli> I guess so, but then won't you lose backward compatibility?
He means to leave the "remote" variants in place.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-01 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-21 17:25 [PATCH 00/16] clean up remote.c state Tom Tromey
2013-06-21 17:25 ` [PATCH 05/16] push general_thread and continue_thread into struct remote_state Tom Tromey
2013-06-21 17:25 ` [PATCH 11/16] move some statics from remote_read_qxfer " Tom Tromey
2013-06-24 17:25 ` Pedro Alves
2013-06-21 17:25 ` [PATCH 03/16] Add new_remote_state Tom Tromey
2013-06-21 17:25 ` [PATCH 15/16] move remote_stopped_by_watchpoint_p and remote_watch_data_address into remote_state Tom Tromey
2013-06-21 17:25 ` [PATCH 12/16] move use_threadinfo_query and use_threadextra_query into struct remote_state Tom Tromey
2013-06-21 17:25 ` [PATCH 13/16] move sizeof_pkt into remote_trace_find Tom Tromey
2013-06-24 1:45 ` Yao Qi
2013-06-24 14:54 ` Tom Tromey
2013-06-24 17:32 ` Pedro Alves
2013-06-21 17:25 ` [PATCH 09/16] push last_sent_signal into struct remote_state Tom Tromey
2013-06-21 17:25 ` [PATCH 01/16] use the libiberty crc code Tom Tromey
2013-06-24 17:24 ` Pedro Alves
2013-06-27 20:12 ` Tom Tromey
2013-06-21 17:25 ` [PATCH 04/16] push remote_desc into struct remote_state Tom Tromey
2013-06-24 17:25 ` Pedro Alves
2013-06-27 20:29 ` Tom Tromey
2013-06-28 16:43 ` [PATCH] Make file transfer commands work with all (native) targets. (was: Re: [PATCH 04/16] push remote_desc into struct remote_state) Pedro Alves
2013-06-28 17:40 ` [PATCH] Make file transfer commands work with all (native) targets Tom Tromey
2013-06-28 17:46 ` [PATCH] Make file transfer commands work with all (native) targets. (was: Re: [PATCH 04/16] push remote_desc into struct remote_state) Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-28 19:05 ` [PATCH] Make file transfer commands work with all (native) targets Pedro Alves
2013-06-28 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-01 14:28 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2013-07-01 16:34 ` Pedro Alves
2013-07-01 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-01 16:44 ` Pedro Alves
2013-06-21 17:25 ` [PATCH 08/16] push last_program_signals_packet into struct remote_state Tom Tromey
2013-06-24 17:36 ` Pedro Alves
2013-06-27 20:13 ` Tom Tromey
2013-06-21 17:25 ` [PATCH 07/16] push last_pass_packet " Tom Tromey
2013-06-21 17:25 ` [PATCH 10/16] push last_sent_step " Tom Tromey
2013-06-21 17:25 ` [PATCH 14/16] move async_client_callback and async_client_context into remote_state Tom Tromey
2013-06-24 17:32 ` Pedro Alves
2013-06-24 18:44 ` Tom Tromey
2013-06-24 19:03 ` Pedro Alves
2013-06-21 17:25 ` [PATCH 06/16] push remote_traceframe_number into struct remote_state Tom Tromey
2013-06-21 17:25 ` [PATCH 16/16] move some static thread state into remote_state Tom Tromey
2013-06-24 17:33 ` Pedro Alves
2013-06-27 20:21 ` Tom Tromey
2013-06-21 17:30 ` [PATCH 02/16] make remote_protocol_features "const" Tom Tromey
2013-06-24 18:35 ` [PATCH 00/16] clean up remote.c state Pedro Alves
2013-07-05 3:07 ` Yao Qi
2013-07-05 14:27 ` Pedro Alves
2013-08-14 17:53 ` Tom Tromey
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