On 03/14/2013 09:44 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Fabien Chouteau <chout...@adacore.com> writes: > >> We introduce a new command line option. It's a generic option to >> customize the gdb server: >> >> -gdb-opts [attached=on|off] >> >> The only parameter for now is "attached". >> >> Signed-off-by: Fabien Chouteau <chout...@adacore.com> > > --gdb-opts complements existing --gdb. You need to use both for full > control. > > I figure you do this because you can't extend --gdb, as its argument is > in legacy character device syntax, not QemuOpts. >
That's right, maybe we can do some string manipulations to handle this case. -gdb tcp::1234,attached=off find ',attached={on|off}' and remove it from the string. > We had similar cases before, and solved them differently: create a more > general option, then make the old one sugar for the new one. > > For instance, --monitor and --qmp are sugar for --mon. Desugaring code > is in monitor_parse(). > Something like: -chardev socket,id=gdb1,host=localhost,port=1234,server,nowait,nodelay -gdb-remote chardev=gdb1,attached=off You still need two options for full control. Regards, -- Fabien Chouteau