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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] print a more useful error message for "gdb core"
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34omfxvrn.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100121135838.GA5211@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (Jan 	Kratochvil's message of "Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:58:38 +0100")

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

Jan> I would prefer to try automatically loading it as a core file ("gdb
Jan> -c core") and to print a warning instead of error.  Fedora GDB is
Jan> patched for build-id (still not submitted for FSF) so that it can
Jan> find the executable in such case.

I agree, but I don't think this should block Doug's patch.
It seems to me that something like Doug's patch will be needed anyway,
if the build-id is not available.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-21 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-20 23:56 Doug Evans
2010-01-21  0:13 ` Doug Evans
2010-01-21  2:33   ` Hui Zhu
2010-01-21 13:58   ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-21 16:34     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2010-01-21 17:17     ` Doug Evans
2010-01-25  4:22       ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-28 21:37 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-28 21:39   ` Doug Evans

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