Re: [PATCH RESEND v5 20/26] gdbstub: Remove gdb_has_xml variable

[Akihiko Odaki]

On 2023/08/31 0:02, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com> writes:
>
> > GDB has XML support since 6.7 which was released in 2007.
> > It's time to remove support for old GDB versions without XML support.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
>
> In principle I'm fine with this but should we not catch GDB's which
> don't send qXfer:features:read earlier?

I don't think so. qXfer:features:read was introduced very long ago so 
practically such a condition should only happen with a failing GDB. 
There is nothing special for qXfer:features:read that differentiates 
from many other possible GDB failures that we do not catch.