Re: Extended a new target from target remote

["Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd@etinternational.com>]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 07:45:05PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 07:42:02PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > Using the normal old GDB remote serial protocol works perfectly, but I'm
> > having trouble figuring out what to do on startup.  When the user in GDB
> > types "target remote server:2345", after the connection is established
> > it would be handy to be able to send more information (such as the list
> > of nodes that the job is spread over) that had be set using set commands
> > before GDB starts trying to set "Hc-1" or reading the general registers.
> > Is there any hook to do this, without modifying remote.c?  What I don't
> > want to have to do is create a new "target cluster" which would end up
> > mostly duplicating the code in remote.c. 
> 
> Can you use target extended-remote instead of target remote?  That
> supports some process-level extensions - including connecting to a
> "not running" target.  Then you can use GDB's normal attach or run
> command once you've set up whatever else you need.

What version of GDB was that added in?  I should have mentioned that I
picked up hacking on the internal GDB 6.1, which I realize is extremely
old and I should have mentioned that up front, and is a little
embarassing.