There was discussion to put with-expat in default config options not
sure if that has been done or not.

On 11 November 2014 13:39, Will Newton <will.new...@linaro.org> wrote:
> Do we know if the Windows gdb binary links against expat? Without
> expat XML support is disabled.
>
> On 11 November 2014 06:51, Omair Javaid <omair.jav...@linaro.org> wrote:
>> Have you implemented a qXfer packet response if not you can do so to
>> use xml description provided by target.
>>
>> Here is a gdb help link that describe how to client can query target.xml.
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Retrieving-Descriptions.html#Retrieving-Descriptions
>>
>>
>> On 10 November 2014 19:42, Qu, Strong <stro...@qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks, Omair. I did check xml files in Linaro's source 
>>> (gdb-linaro-7.6.1-2013.10). In the target.xml file our gdb server sends 
>>> back to gdb client, we only include regsiters X0~X30, sp, pc and cpsr. It's 
>>> close to gdb-linaro-7.6.1-2013.10\gdb\features\aarch64-core.xml, which is 
>>> included in aarch64-without-fpu.xml. I don't know how the server can notify 
>>> the client that it does not have FPU supported. So I assume if the 
>>> target.xml does not claim feature 'org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.fpu’, it would be 
>>> deemed as no FPU supporting.
>>> For now, I added some code in our code to return the value of fpsr and fpcr 
>>> to make the gdb client happy.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Strong
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Omair Javaid [mailto:omair.jav...@linaro.org]
>>> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 3:30 AM
>>> To: Qu, Strong
>>> Cc: linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Question] Should gdb client query FP registers even if gdb 
>>> server does not report having org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.fpu feature?
>>>
>>> On 7 November 2014 02:27, Qu, Strong <stro...@qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We have implemented gdb server in one of our project and we are using
>>>> Linaro aarch64-none-elf-gdb.exe as gdb client. Our gdb server will
>>>> response to packet 'qXfer:features:read:target.xml:0,fff' with a xml
>>>> file which only claims feature ‘org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.core’. However, when I 
>>>> issue ‘info reg’
>>>> command with the gdb client, it actually sends out a packet ‘$p42#d6’,
>>>> which is trying to read fpsr if I understand correctly. Is this an
>>>> expected behavior or not? I just want to figure out whether our gdb
>>>> server send some bad info to the gdb client and made the client thinks
>>>> FP registers are valid. I hope I made my question clear and I’m really
>>>> appreciate if anybody can help us on this again.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Strong
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Hi Strong,
>>>
>>> GDB server will receive a register read request based on registers 
>>> information given in xml target description on the client side.
>>>
>>> You can find these xml in gdb sources under: binutils-gdb/gdb/features
>>>
>>> If GDB is requesting a read for certain register that you expect it should 
>>> not then you have to verify if its there in the xml description or not.
>>>
>>> There is a chance you might have developed your gdbserver implementation 
>>> with some version that doesnt match with current version of linaro-gdb.
>>>
>>> I hope this helps. Let me know if you need to know anything further.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Omair
>>
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>
>
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> Will Newton
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