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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] print error message if (auto) disassembly failed
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> How about
> 
>         #0  0x00007f8befcc8307 in ?? ()
>         0x00007f8befcc8307:     (bad)
> 
> instead?  This is consistent with what "display/i $pc" displays if $pc
> has a bad value, such as if you somehow land in the middle of an
> instruction.

The problem is that this is not actually a "bad" instruction in this case,
but an invalid address. So I think that the "Cannot read memory at ..."
error message is more accurate.

-- 
Joel