Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 00/27] gdbstub: Refactor command packets handler

[Alex Bennée]

Alex Bennée <address@hidden> writes:

> Jon Doron <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> This patch series refactors the old gdbstub command packets handler
>> with a new infrastructure which should ease extending and adding new
>> and missing gdb command packets.
>
> Jon,
>
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>
> Finally it would be nice if we could modernise the membuf and strbuf
> handling with a more robust glib based approach. I understand if you
> don't want to do that now and I'll happily accept the patches without it
> but I did notice you can send the gdbserver a bit loopy if you send it
> some very long maint packets so it would be nice to have that a bit
> safer.

Actually I had a go at this this morning and it turned out to be quite
fiddly so perhaps this is something best left to a follow-up series once
the re-factoring is in.

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Alex Bennée