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Thu, 6 Nov 2025 19:45:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fedora.redhat.com (unknown [10.96.134.145]) by mx-prod-int-08.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0997180035F; Thu, 6 Nov 2025 19:45:22 +0000 (UTC) From: Guinevere Larsen To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: Guinevere Larsen Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Add warning if the native target is not supported Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 16:45:12 -0300 Message-ID: <20251106194514.1857177-1-guinevere@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.4.1 on 10.30.177.111 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-MFC-PROC-ID: 1C_mKIwvTi4bQ61BtfN0AmelJOHKG8aRx5Ea4aHWbtw_1762458324 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; x-default=true X-BeenThere: gdb-patches@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30 Precedence: list List-Id: Gdb-patches mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: gdb-patches-bounces~public-inbox=simark.ca@sourceware.org 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 warning the user when GDB starts that there is no native target, and instructs the user on how to get a list of supported architectures, to know what they'll be able to remotely debug. Guinevere Larsen (2): gdb: introduce command "info architecture" gdb: add warning when no native target is available gdb/NEWS | 4 ++++ gdb/arch-utils.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 5 +++++ gdb/main.c | 5 +++++ 4 files changed, 42 insertions(+) base-commit: af68056244a6c84ee296db5560d8d53f4e829261 -- 2.51.0