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To: Paul Koning <Paul_Koning@dell.com>
Cc: sandra@codesourcery.com, gdb@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,         pedro@codesourcery.com
Subject: Re: [remote protocol] support for disabling packet acknowledgement
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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:05:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20080710223312.GA19058__14539.8706700236$1215729298$gmane$org@caradoc.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:33:12 -0400")
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Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

> [...]
> There's a clear solution to this: sequence numbers.  There's a
> convenient protocol which has them, too...

You must have meant TCP, but gdb's own remote protocol used to have
optional sequence-numbered packets.  Have you considered bringing the
latter back?

- FChE