There is a developer only feature in gdbserver that provides a
command line option --disable-packet that prevents some packets from
being sent, which is used to increase test coverage within GDB.
This commit extends this mechanism to prevent GDBserver from sending
the T stop reply packets, instead limiting GDBserver to only send the
S stop reply packets.
The S stop reply packet is part of the older target control mechanism,
which has design flaws that were worked around with the introduction
of the newer target control mechanism, which uses the T stop reply
packet.
Limiting GDBserver to use S stop packets instead of T stop packets
will, inevitably, mean that GDBserver doesn't function correctly in
many cases involving multiple threads, however, I don't think this is
too important, this is a developer only feature, intended to allow us
to test GDB.
A new test that makes use of this feature will be added in the next
commit.
gdbserver/ChangeLog:
* remote-utils.cc (prepare_resume_reply): Add ability to convert T
reply into an S reply.
* server.cc (disable_packet_T): New global.
(captured_main): Set new global when appropriate.
* server.h (disable_packet_T): Declare.
This patch moves gdbserver to the top level.
This patch is as close to a pure move as possible -- gdbserver still
builds its own variant of gnulib and gdbsupport. Changing this will
be done in a separate patch.
[v2] Note that, per Simon's review comment, this patch changes the
tree so that gdbserver is not built for or1k or score. This makes
sense, because there is apparently not actually a gdbserver port here.
[v3] This version of the patch also splits out some configury into a
new file, gdbserver/configure.host, so that the top-level configure
script can simply rely on it in order to decide whether gdbserver
should be built.
[v4] This version adds documentation and removes some unnecessary
top-level dependencies.
[v5] Update docs to mention "make all-gdbserver" and change how
top-level configure decides whether to build gdbserver, switching to a
single, shared script.
Tested by the buildbot.
ChangeLog
2020-02-07 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* src-release.sh (GDB_SUPPORT_DIRS): Add gdbserver.
* gdbserver: New directory, moved from gdb/gdbserver.
* configure.ac (host_tools): Add gdbserver.
Only build gdbserver on certain systems.
* Makefile.in, configure: Rebuild.
* Makefile.def (host_modules, dependencies): Add gdbserver.
* MAINTAINERS: Add gdbserver.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-02-07 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* README: Update gdbserver documentation.
* gdbserver: Move to top level.
* configure.tgt (build_gdbserver): Remove.
* configure.ac: Remove --enable-gdbserver.
* configure: Rebuild.
* Makefile.in (distclean): Don't mention gdbserver.
Change-Id: I826b7565b54604711dc7a11edea0499cd51ff39e
Simon Marchi
Tom Tromey
Andrew Burgess