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<h3 class="section">30.1 In-Process Agent Protocol</h3>

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The in-process agent is able to communicate with both <span class="sc">gdb</span> and
GDBserver (see <a href="In_002dProcess-Agent.html#In_002dProcess-Agent">In-Process Agent</a>).  This section documents the protocol
used for communications between <span class="sc">gdb</span> or GDBserver and the IPA. 
In general, <span class="sc">gdb</span> or GDBserver sends commands
(see <a href="IPA-Protocol-Commands.html#IPA-Protocol-Commands">IPA Protocol Commands</a>) and data to in-process agent, and then
in-process agent replies back with the return result of the command, or
some other information.  The data sent to in-process agent is composed
of primitive data types, such as 4-byte or 8-byte type, and composite
types, which are called objects (see <a href="IPA-Protocol-Objects.html#IPA-Protocol-Objects">IPA Protocol Objects</a>).

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