From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27659 invoked by alias); 27 Oct 2006 07:44:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 27648 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Oct 2006 07:44:33 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:44:31 +0000 Received: (qmail 4801 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2006 07:44:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (jimb@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 27 Oct 2006 07:44:29 -0000 To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [rfc] "maint set remote" References: <20061026212639.GA21608@nevyn.them.org> From: Jim Blandy Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:44:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20061026212639.GA21608@nevyn.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:26:39 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-10/txt/msg00288.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > Per my discussion with Eli earlier today. This patch removes most of > the documentation for the individual packet commands, moves them under > "maint", and aggregates their documentation into a table there. The > new bits of interest: > > +The @value{GDBN} remote protocol autodetects the packets supported by > +your debugging stub. If you need to override the autodetection, you > +can use these commands to enable or disable individual packets. Each > +packet can be set to @samp{on} (the remote target supports this > +packet), @samp{off} (the remote target does not support this packet), > +or @samp{auto} (detect remote target support for this packet). They > +all default to @samp{auto}. For more information about each packet, > +see @ref{Remote Protocol}. > + > +During normal use, you should not have to use any of these commands. > +If you do, that may be a bug in your remote debugging stub, or a bug > +in @value{GDBN}. You may want to report the problem to the > +@value{GDBN} developers. > + > +The available settings are: > > I also fixed "show remote" while I was here; it became apparent that it > wasn't showing all of the settings once I cut down on the number. > > Comments? OK? Looks good to me. I had thought there were tests that mentioned those commands, but I can't find them, so maybe I'm just misremembering.