Re: [PATCH] Seg fault whilst stepping when watch set [ping!] [in breakpoint.c]

Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-21T19:40:55Z

> From: David Lecomber <david@streamline-computing.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, patches <gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com>
> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:37:50 +0000
>
>
> > > > (gdb) watch i
> > > > During symbol reading, incomplete CFI data; unspecified registers (e.g.,
> > > > eax) at 0x804bc35.
> >
> > I think this should be fixed in HEAD, as of now; if not, we'll have to
> > look at it again. Andrew checked in a patch for this recently.
>
> Still happens with a fresh CVS from one minute ago..

Btw, I must say that this message is utterly unhelpful to users who,
like myself, are not DWARF-2 gurus: it sounds grave and scary, and yet
conveys no information whatsoever about user-level implications of the
problem, to say nothing about any possible ways to work around it.

In other words, this message should be a textbook example of how _not_
to design user interfaces.

Can we please replace the message text with something more useful and
slightly more self-explanatory?