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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"
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In-Reply-To: <20100121135838.GA5211@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (Jan 	Kratochvil's message of "Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:58:38 +0100")
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>>>>> "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