Re: [PATCH] Prompt user to report bugs

[Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>]

Yao Qi wrote:
> On 05/14/2014 07:07 PM, Gary Benson wrote:
> > This patch prints a couple of extra lines in internal_vproblem
> > to prompt the user to report the bug that's just happened.
> 
> GDB prints that when it starts.
> 
> $ ./gdb
> GNU gdb (GDB) 7.7.50.20140514-cvs
> Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
> and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu".
> Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
> For bug reporting instructions, please see:
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Do we want to print the same message again in internal error
> message?

Yes, I think so.  The internal error could occur many thousands
of lines after the startup message is printed.

Thanks,
Gary

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