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[PATCH v2] gdb/hppa: guess g packet size

Simon Marchi simark@simark.ca
Mon Nov 10 20:29:57 GMT 2025 
On 11/10/25 3:10 PM, Sven Schnelle wrote:
>> Could we reach that place if e.g. qemu started to return a target
>> description for the hppa architecture?  I suppose we can error out
>> saying something like "that target returned a target description but
>> this GDB doesn't support it for the HP-PA architecture".
> 
> Ah, got it. Maybe we should default to 32 bit (as userspace is very
> likely to be 32 bit, only the kernel might be 64 bit right now), and
> print a warning in that case?

I guess we could, then there's a non-0% chance that GDB will be right
and be useful to the user.  If we error out, there is a 0% change that
GDB will be useful to the user.

Simon
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