Re: [PING][PATCH v6 0/2] Add warning if the native target is not supported

[Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>]

ping :)

On 9/2/26 4:31 PM, Guinevere Larsen wrote:
> Ping :)
>
> On 8/6/26 3:43 PM, Guinevere Larsen wrote:
>> Ping :)
>>
>> On 5/11/26 5:01 PM, Guinevere Larsen wrote:
>>> Recently I was trying to conduct a new-user test, to figure out what
>>> things were stumbling blocks, and one of the users had a macbook.  The
>>> user on their own would not have been able to understand what was the
>>> reason that they couldn't execute the inferior to debug it.
>>>
>>> This series aims to make it a little more obvious, by making the 
>>> warning
>>> about not being able to "run" more self-explanatory, and instructs 
>>> the user
>>> on how to get a list of supported architectures, to know what 
>>> they'll be
>>> able to remotely debug.
>>>
>>> For v6, I updated the warning messages on the second patch, based on
>>> Andrew's feedback. I did *not* implement the changes sugested for patch
>>> 1, telling the user to use "set <option>". That's because not giving an
>>> option triggers an error, especially printing the emoji if the user has
>>> them enabled, and I believe we shouldn't be teaching users to run
>>> commands that expect to throw an error.
>>>
>>> For v5, some tests were updated as Linaro CI correctly pointed out that
>>> they were failing. The updates were just to expected output, no real
>>> logic change was required.
>>>
>>> v4 has minor cosmetic changes and a test for the help text changes.
>>>
>>> For v3, the warning is now only emitted if the user tries to do
>>> something that requires the native target, such as trying to run. And
>>> the help text now emits a comma separated list instead of 1 item per
>>> line.
>>>
>>> For v2, instead of adding a new command, this series changes the help
>>> command, to make it print all available options if a command only
>>> accepts specific options.
>>>
>>>
>>> Guinevere Larsen (2):
>>>    gdb: improve help text for set commands with limited options
>>>    gdb: Improve warning when no native target is available
>>>
>>>   gdb/cli/cli-decode.c                            | 12 ++++++++++++
>>>   gdb/inf-child.c                                 |  7 ++++++-
>>>   gdb/target.c                                    | 10 +++++++---
>>>   .../gdb.base/auto-connect-native-target.exp     |  6 ++++--
>>>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/help.exp                 |  9 +++++++++
>>>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-doc-reformat.exp    |  2 +-
>>>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-parameter.exp       | 17 
>>> +++++++++++++----
>>>   7 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>>
>>>
>>> base-commit: 9e6e0c3cd9e6d5ee4953f72a805cff5f150aa2fd
>>
>>
-- 
Cheers,
Guinevere Larsen
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