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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Jiju George T <jiju.george@nestgroup.net>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Asynchronouse progress reporting from GDB Server to gdb using 	Remote Serial Protocol
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080421171858.GA14921@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00a201c8a3d0$25ea0d40$390aa8c0@ashmicro.ashling.com>

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:52:56PM +0100, Jiju George T wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   We have a GDB Server which manages connections to embedded targets. We
> have a monitor command for doing a lengthy operation on the target device.
> We want to report the status of this lengthy operation back to gdb
> periodically. Is there any support for this in GDB Remote Serial Protocol? 

Not yet.  But Jim Blandy drafted a proposal for progress reporting
last year, which I hope we will implement eventually.  I don't think
it was posted.

For monitor commands, you could just send back an O packet with an
informative message periodically.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-21 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-21 18:26 Jiju George T
2008-04-21 18:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]

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