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From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org,  	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA] print error message if (auto) disassembly failed
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <daef60380904170959g4c667ab0t71b19f5918b2f2ea@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090417155740.GU7585@adacore.com>

Agree with you.
I will post a patch for it.

Thanks,
Hui

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 23:57, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> In before, when the user step into the program that don't have line
>> message,  they will lost the the help from debuger.  They will not
>> know what will happen in next except a pc address.
>
> IMO, the vast majority of gdb users will not care, or even understand
> what the instruction means. Most of the time, the only reason I would
> personally land in code that doesn't have any debugging info is when
> attaching to a program, loading a core file, or pressing control-c.
> In such cases, the first thing I usually do is "break ...; continue".
>
> I have very very very occasionally done stepi's that got me inside
> such code, but in that case, I use a special user-defined command
> that does the stepi and then prints the instruction.
>
>> For now, this auto will auto output the asm code.  I think it will
>> make user experience (special for new user) better.
>> And I think  Joel's patch fix the bug.
>
> It's not just about the bug, actually - I wasn't suggesting that
> we change the default as a way to make it go away. Rather, I think
> that this default setting will be useful to only very few people,
> while at the same time creating the equivalent of noise for the
> rest of the population. This is why I maintain my suggestion of
> changing the default to "off".
>
> --
> Joel
>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-17 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-16 17:39 Joel Brobecker
2009-04-16 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-16 18:02   ` Joel Brobecker
2009-04-16 18:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-16 19:07       ` Joel Brobecker
2009-04-16 21:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-16 21:54           ` Joel Brobecker
2009-04-16 22:09             ` Pedro Alves
2009-04-17  9:10             ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-16 23:57           ` Joel Brobecker
2009-04-17  7:33             ` Hui Zhu
2009-04-17  9:22             ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-17 15:50               ` Joel Brobecker
2009-04-17 17:34             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-04-17 22:16               ` Joel Brobecker
2009-04-18  6:48                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-16 22:23 ` Tom Tromey
2009-04-16 23:59   ` Joel Brobecker
2009-04-17  5:33     ` Hui Zhu
2009-04-17 15:57       ` Joel Brobecker
2009-04-17 16:16         ` Tom Tromey
2009-04-17 16:59         ` Hui Zhu [this message]
2009-04-17  9:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-17 10:05       ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-23 18:49 ` Joel Brobecker

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