Re: [rfa] qSymbol in remote_wait

Andrew Cagney
2004-02-12T15:58:21Z

> On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 08:22:30PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> As Amit Kale mentioned in December, to support NPTL gdbserver needs to look
>> up symbols during remote_wait. The existing qSymbol model assumes that only
>> at objfile loads (i.e. during td_ta_new) do we need to look up symbols; NPTL
>> looks up symbols lazily when it needs them, which includes at the creation
>> of the first child thread. This patch (which, I know, needs a matching
>> change for the manual) allows qSymbol: queries as a response to remote_wait,
>> in much the same way as the file I/O protocol.
>>
>> Is this OK? If so I'll write up the documentation change.
>
>
> Ping.

Can you please post the proposed protocol change to gdb@.

Andrew