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<h3 class="section">F.4 Varying Target Capabilities</h3>

<p>Some targets don&rsquo;t support floating-point, and some would rather not
have to deal with <code>long long</code> operations.  Also, different targets
will have different stack sizes, and different bytecode buffer lengths.
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<p>Thus, GDB needs a way to ask the target about itself.  We haven&rsquo;t worked
out the details yet, but in general, GDB should be able to send the
target a packet asking it to describe itself.  The reply should be a
packet whose length is explicit, so we can add new information to the
packet in future revisions of the agent, without confusing old versions
of GDB, and it should contain a version number.  It should contain at
least the following information:
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<li> whether floating point is supported

</li><li> whether <code>long long</code> is supported

</li><li> maximum acceptable size of bytecode stack

</li><li> maximum acceptable length of bytecode expressions

</li><li> which registers are actually available for collection

</li><li> whether the target supports disabled tracepoints

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