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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PR/2386 [2/2]: MinGW attach to process without an exec file
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur6h3wlgy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071230170827.GA2494@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (message from 	Christopher Faylor on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:08:28 -0500)

> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:08:28 -0500
> From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>
> 
> >> +    warning(_("working version of psapi.dll not found.  DLL and executable filenames may not be available."));
> >
> >This is not a useful message, IMHO.  I, as a user, would not know what
> >to do with it.  We need to says specifically that attach without an
> >exec file name will not work, and that users should use `file'
> >etc. commands to work around.
> 
> Could you give me some exact wording, please? Is this adequate?
> 
> "working version of psapi.dll not found.  Use `file' and `dll' commands to specifically load symbols."
> 
> ?

IMO, the first sentence is a technicality that doesn't help.  How
about the following instead?

  Cannot find executable file by PID.  Use "file" and "dll" commands
  to load symbols.

> Note, that this is actually an enhancement for what has existed in gdb
> for years.

Sure, but we want to improve things, right?


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-31  4:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-28  1:35 Pedro Alves
2007-12-28  4:33 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-12-29  3:37   ` Pedro Alves
2007-12-29  3:50     ` Joel Brobecker
2007-12-29 11:47       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-29 14:02         ` Lerele
2007-12-29  5:42     ` Joel Brobecker
2007-12-29 12:59       ` Pedro Alves
2007-12-29 14:35         ` Pedro Alves
2007-12-29 18:48         ` Christopher Faylor
2007-12-29 20:15           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-29 22:46           ` Pedro Alves
2007-12-30  3:07             ` Christopher Faylor
2007-12-30  4:32               ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-30 20:37                 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-12-31  6:35                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-12-31  8:12                     ` Christopher Faylor
2007-12-31 21:38                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-30 20:41               ` Pedro Alves
2007-12-30  4:20             ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-31  4:13               ` Pedro Alves
2007-12-29 11:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-29 11:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-29 14:33   ` Pedro Alves
2007-12-29 16:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-30  0:30       ` Pedro Alves

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