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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:52:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA] print error message if (auto) disassembly failed
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To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
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> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:39:18 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> I propose to change the behavior to print the error message:
> 
>         (gdb) core core
>         warning: core file may not match specified executable file.
>         Core was generated by `./crash'.
>         Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
>         #0  0x00007f8befcc8307 in ?? ()
>         0x00007f8befcc8307:     Cannot access memory at address 0x7f8befcc8307
>         (gdb) 

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.