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Re: [RFA] Small improvements to the remote protocol manual
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 11:58:37 +0000
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Small improvements to the remote protocol manual
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On 09/14/2016 11:58 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Another oddity I noticed is that it's unclear what a client ought to do
> if a stub sends a notification that it doesn't understand.
The idea so far was that that shouldn't happen, so it's undefined.
The client should be able to tell whether a client supports some feature
that requires some notification, based on the initial qSupported negotiation,
or on some mode (such as non-stop) being explicitly activated by the
client.
> The ACK for
> a notification depends on the contents (which implies that they've been
> understood), and there doesn't seem to be a general notification NAK. I
> think this might be a useful addition.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves