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Re: [RFA] Small improvements to the remote protocol manual
- From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- Cc: "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:09:02 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Small improvements to the remote protocol manual
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On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:
> Also, I forgot to note here that I didn't understand the documentation
> for the "A" packet; but when I looked at the code I couldn't find it in
> either gdb or gdbserver. So, I wonder if it ought to be deleted.
>
The "A" packet was added in 1999 as a "reserved" packet,
+@item set program arguments @strong{(reserved)} @emph{(optional)}
+@tab @code{A}@var{arglen}@code{,}@var{argnum}@code{,}@var{arg}@code{,...}
but the "reserved" marker is removed in
b8ff78cefa335846b4303f303847a4d69e652795 (2005),
- Remove "(reserved)" markers on 'A' and 'I' packets; it's unclear
what this ever meant.
Nowadays, we still can't pass arguments in remote debugging. If "A" still
meets our needs, we can use it in the future to pass arguments.
--
Yao (齐尧)