Re: shared library support hookin the remote.c

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

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> Andrew Cagney wrote:
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>> So each time the inferior stops, GDB will need to re-poll for shlib changes?
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> That is the way I currently have it set up.
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> There is one thing I don't understand about the F packet. How does the inferior know that it is OK to send the packet. From everything that I have read. Comunication is initiated by GDB and answered by the inferior. I didn't know that the stub could initiate a packet. If so, Do I just tack on the F packet information to the end of a currently generated packet?

It's new code (added last year).  Instead of a normal stop, the inferior 
reports an F, once that is handled the inferior is resumed again. 
Corinna documented the interaction pretty well - see the relevant appendix.

> This is the reason I was polling. Otherwise I prefer to not poll.
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>> Can the stub instead generate a packet, very like the recently added F (File I/O) indicating that the link map changed (and what)?
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> I think I have answered this by answering the preceding question.
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>> The other is to have a custom xxx-shlib hooked up to inferior stopped that queries for the stuff you describe. It could probably be tunneled as a TARGET_OBJECT_KOD packet.
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> If I implement the F packet would that get rid if the need for a xxx-shlib?

I think so.

Andrew