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Re: RFA: Deprecate remote protocol sequence-ID
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: RFA: Deprecate remote protocol sequence-ID
- From: jtc at redback dot com (J.T. Conklin)
- Date: 24 Mar 2000 14:02:51 -0800
- Cc: GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <38DAF122.3CA0E862@cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: jtc at redback dot com
>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
Andrew> I'd like to put forward the proposal that the sequence-id:
Andrew> $sequence-id:packet-data#checksum
Andrew>
Andrew> be clearly deprecated. GDB doesn't produce them and all known targets
Andrew> do nothing useful with them. Further, the syntax is dangerous as it
Andrew> restricts (in a very bizare way) the contents of actual packets.
I agree that we can mark it deprecated, but I'm not sure doing so
affords us any more freedom wrt. packet contents. There are deployed
debug stubs which can not be updated that will interpret packets with
buf[2] == ':' as having a sequence numbers. We've been able to avoid
such packets so far, is it really that onerous of a restriction?
--jtc
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J.T. Conklin
RedBack Networks