Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Some small debugger data and wire protocol improvements

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 07:29:57PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > One thing though; I think we need to add some sort of versioning support
> > to the debugger protocol so when you run feathers to talk to a program
> > compiled with a different version of CHICKEN, this is going to fail.
> >
> > I think this is a situation we ought to at least detect and warn or error
> > on, so the user won't be left with confusing behaviour.  This is quite
> > likely when you consider the debugger can be used remotely; there is no
> > guarantee that the program on the remote end is using the same version
> > of the debugger protocol.
> >
> 
> There is a protocol_version test in feathers.tcl ... Is this what you mean?

Ah, I suppose so. I couldn't find it so quickly; where is it in the C code?
What happens when the version is different?

Maybe we should simply bump that version then.

Cheers,
Peter

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