Todd Fiala wrote:

It also seems like the qSupported request to the stub can take client-side values pushed in as suffixes to the qSupported request. Is that the way to inform the stub of the client's max accepted incoming packet length?
I can't see "PacketSize" listed as a gdbfeature, in the "GDB Remote Serial Protocol" appendix. (I assuming that the document lists gdbfeature and stubfeature as exclusive sets).

It's possible that the client is intended to tolerate large packets, since it is envisaged to run on a machine with sufficient memory to keep reallocing it's recv buffer. However, (I'm guessing here) the stub is intended to run on a more constrained environment, and where it may not be possible to allocate as much memory, and therefore is reliant on a statically allocated fixed-size buffer. As a consequence, the designers of the protocol may have decided that there must be a way to constrain the client, but that the stub need not be similarly constrained? Well, that's my take on it.

Matt



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