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Re: [patch] gdbserver: Add support for Z0/Z1 packets


On Wednesday 24 June 2009 20:19:55, Aleksandar Ristovski wrote:
> Your patch: Wasn't it more desireable to distinguish between 
> (1) -unsupported and
> (-1)-error?
> 
> i.e. in "default", shouldn't it be "res=-1" so that it makes 
> it clear that gdb passed invalid argument?

Z0, Z1, Z2, etc. are different packets, the "type" is not
an argument to a Z packet.  If we ever came up with a
Z8 packet, a gdbserver not recognizing it should reply
"unsupported", not error.

> 
> Testsuite: I do run it but I admit sometimes not due to 
> issues my system is giving me lately; I have to run tests 
> "manually" i.e. one by one (I'll have to take some time to 
> figure out why is the test run, after some time, just 
> starting to ERROR, unable to properly spawn new gdb instance).

Okay, but there's always test with local gdbserver on linux or Windows
otherwise.  It's really easy:

 http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Native_gdbserver_testing

-- 
Pedro Alves


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