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Re: [RFC] Adding %cs and %ss for AMD64 to GDB
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: "Amit S. Kale" <amitkale at emsyssoft dot com>
- Cc: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at chello dot nl>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com,peter at freebsd dot org, obrien at freebsd dot org, fvdl at netbsd dot org,Jim Houston <jim dot houston at ccur dot com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 02:47:49 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Adding %cs and %ss for AMD64 to GDB
- References: <200401010051.i010p5Yg016798@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <200401011144.29524.amitkale@emsyssoft.com>
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:44:29AM +0530, Amit S. Kale wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Linux kgdb indeed will not have much of a problem. I anyway have posted a gdb
> with kernel module loading feature at kgdb.sourceforge.net. It's going to
> stay there for till the time this feature makes it to official gdb. I can add
> this change also to that gdb.
>
> I guess it's time to introduce a version stamp on remote protocol. That way
> any further modifications to the protocol will not result in surprises from
> gdb-gdbserver mismatches.
Versioning the remote protocol as a whole isn't feasible, since there
are so many variations. I've tentatively proposed a solution for the
problem of changing register sets; it's just that neither I nor anyone
else has had time to implement it :)
Mark, I agree with your assessment. I don't think it will be a
problem.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer