[lldb-dev] gdb-remote command broken in TOT

[Matthew Gardiner]

Greg Clayton wrote:
> LLDB was incorrectly using the "qC" packet to get the process info. From your old working log:
>
> 127.000.000.001.43202-127.000.000.001.07778: $qC#b4
> 127.000.000.001.07778-127.000.000.001.43202: $QC359b#97
>
> It now uses the qProcessInfo packet:
>
>> 127.000.000.001.43138-127.000.000.001.07778: $qProcessInfo#dc
>> 127.000.000.001.07778-127.000.000.001.43138: $#00
>> 127.000.000.001.43138-127.000.000.001.07778: $qProcessInfo#dc
>> 127.000.000.001.07778-127.000.000.001.43138: $#00
> You should add support for this packet. Here is a sample:
>
> send packet: $qProcessInfo#00
> read packet: $pid:42a8;parent-pid:42bf;real-uid:ecf;real-gid:b;effective-uid:ecf;effective-gid:b;cputype:7;cpusubtype:3;ostype:macosx;vendor:apple;endian:little;ptrsize:4;#00
>
> Omit and key value pairs that don't make sense for your target (parent-pid, real-uid, real-gid, effective-uid, effective-gid, cputype, cpusubtype), but do try to at least add the following key/value pairs:
>
> pid
> triple (with values like: x86_64-apple-macosx, i386-unknown-unknown (for raw binary debugging with no OS like a bare board))
> endian
> ptrsize
>
> You can omit the "vendor" and "ostype" if you supply the triple.
Thanks for this Greg, I'm on my way with implementing this in my stub.

The problem, which I've previously iterated to Todd, is that now lldb's 
gdb-remote command is incompatible with the stock GNU gdbserver, as it 
knows only of qC and not of qProcessInfo.

Matt



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