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| <h3 class="section">E.11 Packet Acknowledgment</h3> |
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| <p>By default, when either the host or the target machine receives a packet, |
| the first response expected is an acknowledgment: either ‘<samp>+</samp>’ (to indicate |
| the package was received correctly) or ‘<samp>-</samp>’ (to request retransmission). |
| This mechanism allows the <small>GDB</small> remote protocol to operate over |
| unreliable transport mechanisms, such as a serial line. |
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| <p>In cases where the transport mechanism is itself reliable (such as a pipe or |
| TCP connection), the ‘<samp>+</samp>’/‘<samp>-</samp>’ acknowledgments are redundant. |
| It may be desirable to disable them in that case to reduce communication |
| overhead, or for other reasons. This can be accomplished by means of the |
| ‘<samp>QStartNoAckMode</samp>’ packet; see <a href="General-Query-Packets.html#QStartNoAckMode">QStartNoAckMode</a>. |
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| <p>When in no-acknowledgment mode, neither the stub nor <small>GDB</small> shall send or |
| expect ‘<samp>+</samp>’/‘<samp>-</samp>’ protocol acknowledgments. The packet |
| and response format still includes the normal checksum, as described in |
| <a href="Overview.html#Overview">Overview</a>, but the checksum may be ignored by the receiver. |
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| <p>If the stub supports ‘<samp>QStartNoAckMode</samp>’ and prefers to operate in |
| no-acknowledgment mode, it should report that to <small>GDB</small> |
| by including ‘<samp>QStartNoAckMode+</samp>’ in its response to ‘<samp>qSupported</samp>’; |
| see <a href="General-Query-Packets.html#qSupported">qSupported</a>. |
| If <small>GDB</small> also supports ‘<samp>QStartNoAckMode</samp>’ and it has not been |
| disabled via the <code>set remote noack-packet off</code> command |
| (see <a href="Remote-Configuration.html#Remote-Configuration">Remote Configuration</a>), |
| <small>GDB</small> may then send a ‘<samp>QStartNoAckMode</samp>’ packet to the stub. |
| Only then may the stub actually turn off packet acknowledgments. |
| <small>GDB</small> sends a final ‘<samp>+</samp>’ acknowledgment of the stub’s ‘<samp>OK</samp>’ |
| response, which can be safely ignored by the stub. |
| </p> |
| <p>Note that <code>set remote noack-packet</code> command only affects negotiation |
| between <small>GDB</small> and the stub when subsequent connections are made; |
| it does not affect the protocol acknowledgment state for any current |
| connection. |
| Since ‘<samp>+</samp>’/‘<samp>-</samp>’ acknowledgments are enabled by default when a |
| new connection is established, |
| there is also no protocol request to re-enable the acknowledgments |
| for the current connection, once disabled. |
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