Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 3/3] New option -gdb-opts

[Markus Armbruster]

Fabien Chouteau <address@hidden> writes:

> We introduce a new command line option. It's a generic option to
> customize the gdb server:
>
> -gdb-opts [attached=on|off]
>
> The only parameter for now is "attached".
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabien Chouteau <address@hidden>

--gdb-opts complements existing --gdb.  You need to use both for full
control.

I figure you do this because you can't extend --gdb, as its argument is
in legacy character device syntax, not QemuOpts.

We had similar cases before, and solved them differently: create a more
general option, then make the old one sugar for the new one.

For instance, --monitor and --qmp are sugar for --mon.  Desugaring code
is in monitor_parse().