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71<h3 class="section">F.4 Varying Target Capabilities</h3>
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73<p>Some targets don&rsquo;t support floating-point, and some would rather not
74have to deal with <code>long long</code> operations.  Also, different targets
75will have different stack sizes, and different bytecode buffer lengths.
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77<p>Thus, GDB needs a way to ask the target about itself.  We haven&rsquo;t worked
78out the details yet, but in general, GDB should be able to send the
79target a packet asking it to describe itself.  The reply should be a
80packet whose length is explicit, so we can add new information to the
81packet in future revisions of the agent, without confusing old versions
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83least the following information:
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86<li> whether floating point is supported
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88</li><li> whether <code>long long</code> is supported
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90</li><li> maximum acceptable size of bytecode stack
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92</li><li> maximum acceptable length of bytecode expressions
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