From: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gdb: add warning when no native target is available
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 10:24:15 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54086583-2fb0-498b-85ea-ebcb7e66f806@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864ir6b7wh.fsf@gnu.org>
On 11/7/25 4:48 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
>> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 16:45:14 -0300
>>
>> + if (get_native_target () == nullptr)
>> + warning (_("No native target, only remote debugging is supported.\n"
>> + "Use \"%ps\" to check which architectures are supported."),
>> + styled_string (command_style.style (), "info architecture"));
> Would we also say "Native debugging is supported" in the opposite
> case?
>
> Thanks.
>
When you debug an inferior without connecting to a gdbserver, you are
doing native debugging, but I don't think it makes sense to warn the
user that native debugging is supported since that is the default
behavior of GDB, if that is what you mean with this email.
--
Cheers,
Guinevere Larsen
It/she
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-07 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-06 19:45 [PATCH 0/2] Add warning if the native target is not supported Guinevere Larsen
2025-11-06 19:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] gdb: introduce command "info architecture" Guinevere Larsen
2025-11-06 23:24 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-11-07 13:10 ` Guinevere Larsen
2025-11-07 15:51 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-11-07 16:05 ` Hannes Domani
2025-11-08 2:02 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-11-27 19:51 ` Guinevere Larsen
2025-11-27 20:00 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-11-27 20:09 ` Guinevere Larsen
2025-11-28 9:20 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-12-01 16:49 ` Guinevere Larsen
2025-11-07 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-11-07 13:41 ` Guinevere Larsen
2025-11-07 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-11-08 2:25 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-11-27 20:01 ` Guinevere Larsen
2025-11-28 9:20 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-11-06 19:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] gdb: add warning when no native target is available Guinevere Larsen
2025-11-07 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-11-07 13:24 ` Guinevere Larsen [this message]
2025-11-07 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-11-27 20:15 ` Guinevere Larsen
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