From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
To: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>,
binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gdb/hppa: guess g packet size
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:29:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e776b77d-0304-4315-9e93-81d562884800@simark.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wm3xir7x.fsf@stackframe.org>
On 11/10/25 3:10 PM, Sven Schnelle wrote:
>> Could we reach that place if e.g. qemu started to return a target
>> description for the hppa architecture? I suppose we can error out
>> saying something like "that target returned a target description but
>> this GDB doesn't support it for the HP-PA architecture".
>
> Ah, got it. Maybe we should default to 32 bit (as userspace is very
> likely to be 32 bit, only the kernel might be 64 bit right now), and
> print a warning in that case?
I guess we could, then there's a non-0% chance that GDB will be right
and be useful to the user. If we error out, there is a 0% change that
GDB will be useful to the user.
Simon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-10 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-04 6:30 Sven Schnelle
2025-11-10 13:47 ` Sven Schnelle
2025-11-10 16:52 ` Simon Marchi
2025-11-10 17:09 ` Simon Marchi
2025-11-10 17:21 ` Sven Schnelle
2025-11-10 17:38 ` Simon Marchi
2025-11-10 20:10 ` Sven Schnelle
2025-11-10 20:29 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
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